Counterfeiting in Colonial America
Counterfeiting in Colonial America

Author: Kenneth Scott

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780812217315

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Counterfeiting flourished in colonial America and Scott brings to life the many colorful figures who indulged in this nefarious practice.

A Counterfeiter's Paradise
A Counterfeiter's Paradise

Author: Ben Tarnoff

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-03-06

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1101574836

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"This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming." -The Washington Post As Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history, get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the counterfeiters who first took advantage of America's turbulent economy. In A Counterfeiter's Paradise, Tarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters who flourished in early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Driven by desire for fortune and fame, each counterfeiter cunningly manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. Through the tales of these three memorable hustlers, Tarnoff tells the larger tale of America's financial coming-of-age, from a patchwork of colonies to a powerful nation with a single currency.

In Defense of Captain Oliver Hanchett
In Defense of Captain Oliver Hanchett

Author: Leland J. Hanchett, Jr.

Publisher: Pine Rim Publishing LLC

Published: 2018-08-15

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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This is the story of a patriot of both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Oliver participated in that historic march to Quebec through the Maine wilderness in 1775. Oliver fought bravely but the military plan was ill conceived and Oliver along with many of his fellow soldiers was taken prisoner. Their leader, Colonel Benedict Arnold, was wounded in the foot and spent most of the battle in a makeshift hospital. Oliver spent nine moths in captivity trying to keep his unit from starving. Part of the time he was in chains as punishment for leading an attempted escape.

Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace
Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace

Author: Daniel A. Cohen

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9781558495296

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In this innovative study, Daniel A. Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications. Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious execution sermons with last-speech broadsides, gallows verses, criminal autobiographies, trial reports, newspaper stories, and romantic docudramas. Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace probes the forgotten origins of our modern mass media's preoccupation with crime and punishment.

Circulating Counterfeits of the Americas
Circulating Counterfeits of the Americas

Author: John M. Kleeberg

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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A collection of seven papers, plus two further papers forming the appendices, from the Fourteenth Coinage of the Americas Conference held in 1998. The contributors focus on counterfeits, a relatively neglected field of study in numismatics, in the 18th and 19th centuries.