Colonial Currency Reprints, 1682-1751: With An Introduction And Notes (Volume Iii)

By Andrew McFarland Davis

Book Overview

Behind every colonial banknote lies a story of risk, ambition, and empire. Colonial Currency Reprints, 1682-1751 (Volume III) opens that world through the voices of those who argued over money, credit, and power in seventeenth and eighteenth century America. Paper money reshaped early America. Here, reproduced proclamations, pamphlets, and official papers chart the rise of colonial paper currency history, illuminating how the British colonial America economy grappled with scarce coin, wartime finance, and taxation. Andrew McFarland Davis presents an annotated primary source collection of historical currency document reprints that anchors colonial economic history studies in the words of contemporaries, creating an authoritative resource for numismatics researchers and a reference book for historians of the monetary history of America. This American numismatics history book stands at the intersection of economic narrative and archival rigour, showcasing how colonial finance and taxation shaped everyday life and imperial policy. Davis, a pioneering scholar of monetary history, offers lucid contextual notes that connect disparate documents into a coherent picture of colonial credit systems and their long aftershocks. For readers intrigued by the texture of original documents, as much as for scholars of colonial economic history studies, this is both tool and prized object. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure for anyone drawn to early American paper money and the deep currents of American monetary history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354449840
• ISBN13: 9789354449840
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"