Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750-1800

Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750-1800
ISBN-10
0742520870
ISBN-13
9780742520875
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
219
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Robert Eric Wright

Description

In The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, the first full analysis of the origins of American commercial banking since Bray Hammond's monumental study forty-five years ago, Robert E. Wright skillfully examines the political and economic forces that contributed to the origins and rise of banks in cities such as Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, as well as in smaller towns servicing rural America.

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