To Counterfeit Is Death? Money, Print, and Punishment in the Early American Public Sphere.
This article contributes to recent scholarship on early American money by exploring the role of print and the public sphere in making local paper currencies meaningful. In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, elected assemblies and paper money advocates produced currencies, legislati...
| Publicado en: | Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 233 - 272 |
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Spring2023
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