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Good economic history should be both good economics and good history. This book is good economic history, and Bodenhorn has clearly aimed for an audience of both economists and historians. Bradley Hansen, Eastern Economic Journal, Winter 2006 Bodenhorn's book aptly fills in the details of the emergence and meteoric growth of one of these components, and describes how lessons learned in the period of early state banking have gone on to shape the institutional forms that remain with us today. EH.Net 2003

Good economic history should be both good economics and good history. This book is good economic history, and Bodenhorn has clearly aimed for an audience of both economists and historians. Bradley Hansen, Eastern Economic Journal, Winter 2006 Bodenhorn's book aptly fills in the details of the emergence and meteoric growth of one of these components, and describes how lessons learned in the period of early state banking have gone on to shape the institutional forms that remain with us today. EH.Net 2003

Professor Bodenhorn has provided students of American business history with a thoughtful, well-written account of the role of state-chartered commercial banks in furthering the material progress of antebellum America. --Business History Review Professor Bodenhorn has provided students of American business history with a thoughtful, well-written account of the role of state-chartered commercial banks in furthering the material progress of antebellum America. --Business History Review

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