【资料名称】：《A financial history of the United States》VOL1
【资料作者】：Jerry W. Markham.
【出版社】：M.E.Sharpe
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Contents
List of Illustrations xv
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxi
Chapter 1. In the Beginning
1. The Antecedents: World Trade Before the Discovery of America 3
Mercantilism 3 • Law and Finance 4 • The Birth of Money 4 •
Bills of Exchange 5 • Ancient Derivatives 5 • Insurance 6 •
Lending and Trade 6 • Finance in Spain at the Time of
Columbus 7 • Finance in England Before the Discovery of
America 8 • Ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy 12 • Finance
Elsewhere in Europe Before Columbus 15
2. The Colonization of America 19
Finance in America Upon the Arrival of Columbus 19 • Europeans
Arrive in the New World 20 • The English in North America 21 •
Establishment of Permanent Colonies in America 24
3. Commerce With the Colonies 30
Regulation of Trade 30 • The Colonies Do Not Submit Meekly 31 •
The Royal Colonies and the Board of Trade 33 • Economic
Expansion 35 • Slavery and Finance 37• Methods of Exchange 38 •
The Export Trade 39 • America’s Benefit to England 40
4. Trade and Money 43
Money in America 43 • Commodity Money 44 • Coins as
Currency 46 • Paper Money 48 • Bills of Credit 50 • Fluctuations
in Currency Values 53 • Monetary Problems 55
5. Revolutionary Finance 58
Revolution 58 • Financing Independence 60 • Dealing With Inflation 66 •
Robert Morris 69 • The Morris Bank 71
Chapter 2. A Nation Is Born
1. Independence 75
The Articles of Confederation 75 • The Constitution 76 • The Fight
Over Assumption 77 • Assumption Succeeds 79 • Assumption Leads
to an Insider Trading Scandal 80 • Taxation With Representation 81 •
Monetary Problems Continue 82 • Creation of a Mint 83 • Early
Banking Development 84 • Banking Growth 86 • The Bank of North
America 87 • Creation of a National Bank 88 • The Treasury
Department and State Banks 90 • Money Shortages and Problems 91
2. The Development of Corporations 93
Stock Exchanges Are Formed 93 • Trading in London 94 • Stock
Jobbers 96 • The South Sea Bubble 97 • The Bubble Bursts 98 •
The Mississippi Bubble 100 • Speculation in America 101 • Land
Companies 102 • Other Business Associations 104 • Commercial
Corporations 105 • Corporate Growth 106
3. The Rise of the American Stock Market 108
William Duer 109 • The Duer Panic 110 • The Morris Failure 111 •
Alexander Hamilton’s Travails 113 • The Market Grows 114 •
Speculation in Securities 115 • Trading in New York 116 • Securities
Auctions 117 • Government Reaction to Speculation 118 • Speculation
Continues Despite Concerns 119 • The Lotteries 119 • Securities
Trading Expands 120 • The War of 1812 121 • Post-War Problems 123
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Other Forms of Insurance 184 • Marine Insurance in America 185 •
Fire Insurance in America 185 • Mutual Insurance 186 • Annuities in
America 187 • Life Insurance in America 188 • Tontine Schemes 188 •
Term Insurance 189 • Insurance Company Growth 190 • MLIC and
Other Companies 191 • The Great Fires 192 • Insurance
Regulation 193 • Insurance Agents 193
5. The Panic of 1857 195
The Exchange Business 196 • Alexander Brown & Sons 196 • Express
Services and Finance 197 • Financial Transactions Evolve 198 •
Investment Standards Are Set for Trustees 198 • Gold Discoveries 199 •
Finance in the West 200 • Trading Problems 200 • The Panic Begins 201 •
Causes of the Panic 202 • Investment Banking 203 • Sectional Issues 203
Chapter 4. The Civil War and Speculation
1. Union Finance 207
Northern Financial Problems 208 • Wartime Measures 208 •
Salmon P. Chase 209 • Jay Cooke 211 • Criticism of Cooke 212 •
Financial Problems Mount 213 • Need for a National Currency 214 •
Legal Tender Problems 215 • National Banks 217 • National Bank
Regulation 218 • Branching and State Banks 219 • Wartime Costs 220 •
Finances and Assassination 221
2. Confederate Finance 223
Confederate Taxes 223 • Money Troubles 226 • Borrowing to Finance
the War 226 • Commodity Currency 228 • Confederate Notes 229 •
Counterfeiting 230 • Currency Shortages 231 • King Cotton 231 •
The Erlanger Loan 232 • Inflation 234 • Private Finance 236 •
Confederate Finance Collapses 237 • Confederate Note Holders 240
3. Wartime Speculation 241
War and the NYSE 241 • Exchange Competition 242 • Gold and Oil
Sales 243 • Country Trading 244 • Stock Market Communications 245 •
Railroad Finances 246 • Stock Manipulations 247 • Foreign Investment
During the War 249 • Peace Causes a Market Downturn 249
4. The Robber Barons 251
John Jacob Astor 251 • Stephen Girard 252 • Cornelius Vanderbilt 253 •
Daniel Drew 254 • Skulduggery 255 • The Erie Gang 257 • The Erie
Gang Splits Up 260 • Jay Gould 262 • The Robber Baron Creed 264
5. Commodity Markets and the Gold Corner 265
Derivatives in America 265 • Commodity Exchanges 266 •
The CBOT 267 • Commodity Exchanges Proliferate 268 • The Gold
Market 269 • The Ketchum Forgeries 271 • The Epic Gold
Corner 272 • The Corner Is Broken 274
Chapter 5. The Panics
1. Financial Growth and the Panic of 1873 279
Growth of the Equitable 280 • Insurance Regulation 281 • Expansion

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International Finance 361 • Public Finance 361 • Government
Regulation 362
3. Money, Banks, and Trust Companies 365
Dual Banking System 365 • Banking Giants 365 • Banking Regulation
and Operations 367 • Checking 368 • Clearinghouses 368 • Money
Markets 369 • Branch Banking 370 • Thrifts 371 • Commercial
Paper 372 • Goldman, Sachs & Co. 374 • Other Money Market
Instruments 374 • The Trust Companies 375 • Trust Company
Regulation 376
Conclusion 379
Notes 385
Selected Bibliography 403
Name Index 415
Subject Index 423