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CONTENTS.
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PERIOD I: 1630 to 1780.
The Colonists Experiment with Joint Stock Banks of Issue on Land Security, and with Provincial Mortgage Loan Offices Issuing Currency |
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CHAPTER 1: Banks in the Colonies |
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PERIOD II: 1780 to 1812.
Banks are Incorporated in the States; also a Bank of the United States on the type of the Bank of England. The Colonial Idea is continued in Banks of the States, being Institutions based either on the "Faith and Credit" of the State alone, or on a Combination of Public Funds with Private Subscriptions |
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CHAPTER 2: The Earliest Banks of Discount, Deposit, and Convertible Circulation |
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CHAPTER 3: The First Bank of the United States and its Times |
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CHAPTER 4: The Earliest Banks in the Mississippi Valley |
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PERIOD III: 1812 to 1829–32.
Local Banks are Multiplied to Replace the Bank of the United States. Their Issues are Stimulated by their Fiscal Functions, soon Intensified by War Financiering. A Commercial Crisis is Produced with a Prolonged Liquidation, attended by Various Experiments in Bank Issues and Stay Laws for Relief. A Banking System is created consisting of Local Banks co-ordinated around a Bank of the United States, as a Regulator of the Currency and Fiscal Agent of the Government |
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CHAPTER 5: Inflation on the Atlantic Coast |
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CHAPTER 6: Inflation in the Mississippi Valley |
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CHAPTER 7: The Crisis on the Atlantic Coast |
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CHAPTER 8: The Crisis in the Mississippi Valley |
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