Reviews for Southern Currency, Vol. 1

The average rating for Southern Currency, Vol. 1 based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-02-21 00:00:00 Kristen Dunlap This book has evolved considerably. It remains an excellent source of information for the southern state currency and for the currency of Texas, Louisiana and Florida before the civil war. For a book about the confederate currency, get Pierre Fricke's book, which is the definitive work on that series of 71 notes.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-01 00:00:00 Freeman Rawdon An Historian who can Tell a Story!!! Stephen Mihm is a breath of fresh air. A Nation of Counterfeiters is both well documented and well written narrative history that draws the reader along to new understanding and perspective on the nation's economy and banking system in the early history of the United States. Rather than the normal economy, however, Mihm tackles the underground economy and in the process allows the reader to better understand both. Mihm weaves a tapestry of sources to draw clearly an element of society that took great pains to go unnoticed. Using archives, newspapers, family histories, and genealogies, he paints the picture and at the same time illustrates the national situation that not only tempted but almost by default drew an element of shadow capitalists to serve not only their own needs but the needs of a cash starved society stuggling for confidence and sufficient quantity in the money supply. Nearly every paragraph in this work has at least one source so the scholar will be able to utilize this for academic needs. Better than most books of this genre though the story reads clearly and is tightly written and flows. I look forward to future works by Mr. Mihm. This was a pleasure to read. 5 unqualified stars! Bart Breen