Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America.(Book review)

Journal of the Early Republic | June 22, 2007| | Copyright

Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America. By Jennifer J. Baker. (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 218. Illustrations. Cloth, $50.00.)

Securing the Commonwealth is a historically astute study of the complex relations between economic culture and literary history in early America. Encompassing the period between the 1690s, when Massachusetts Bay first introduced government--issued bills of credit into the colonial economy, and the 1790s, when debates about fiscal policy helped to spur the ...

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