{"product_id":"the-origins-of-commercial-banking-in-america-17501800-9780742520875","title":"The Origins of Commercial Banking in America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Wright argues that the ultimate causes of American economic development and transformation into a modern society can be reduced to the causes of American commercial banking. Wright analyzes why American banking arose when, and with the particular characteristics, it did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume stands as the new starting point for gaining an understanding of the evolution of U.S. commercial banking. By revising the analytical model for all subsequent historians who embark on an examination of the origins of U.S. commercial banking, Robert Wright has made a major scholarly contribution. -- Edwin J. Perkins * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *\u003cbr\u003eRecommended for graduate and research collections. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eThe many useful facts and characterizations of early American banking make this book a significant contribution. * Journal of Economic History *\u003cbr\u003eA welcome addition to this ongoing research effort.  His extensive archival and secondary research enables Wright to paint a penetrating portrait of the development of one aspect  of the nation's early financial history—commercial banks—and demonstrate that their appearance played a central role in the economic and social changes that swept Revolutionary America....The Origins of Commercial Banking is an impressive work that deserves a wide audience among historians of early America's economic and social life. * Business History Review *\u003cbr\u003eThis work is recommended for economic historians interested in financial and banking history and the revolutionary period. * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eWright. . . carefully recounts the political battles between rising middling entrepreneurs and established commercial interests over what kinds of institutions they wished to create. * Enterprise \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the strengths of this book of this book is that it approaches its subject by looking at the colonial economy and the impact of the Revolution. This work argues persuasively that illiquidity defied the colonial economy. This is a very useful study of early mercantile practice and the origins of commercial banking. * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Colonial Finance and the Lack of Liquidity, 1750-1775 Chapter 3 Revolutionary Change, 1750-1783 Chapter 4 Three Key Crises, 1783-1787 Chapter 5 Banking and Business in the 1790s and Beyond Chapter 6 Businessmen and Banking, 1790-1800 Chapter 7 Conclusion","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526878273879,"sku":"9780742520875","price":49.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780742520875.jpg?v=1731865725","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-origins-of-commercial-banking-in-america-17501800-9780742520875","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}