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Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America

Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: 1. The money debate and American political development 2. Party politics and the financial debate, 1865-1896 3. Greenbacks versus gold: the contest over finance in the 1870s 4. The 'people's money': Greenbackism in North Carolina, Illinois and Massachusetts 5. The battle of the standards: the financial debate of the 1890s 6. Populism and the politics of finance in North Carolina, Illinois and Massachusetts in the 1890s 7. Money, history, and American political development Appendix A. Financial terms of the 1870s and 1890s Appendix B. Major banking and currency legislation, 1860-1900 Appendix C. An antimonopolist reading of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1982893181
FWCI: 16.31
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Cited by: 104
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