Currency Finance

An Interpretation of Colonial Monetary Practices

Bibliographic Data

ID3131439
AuthorsE James Ferguson, Everett Ferguson (0000-0002-7434-7010, corresponding author)
Year1953
Volume10
Issue2
Pages153
Publication date1953-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2936930
OpenAlexW2333803938
LanguageEN
Citations received7

HE accepted view of the financial and monetary history of the American colonies needs revision. It owes too much to the influence of nineteenth-century scholars who were themselves partisans in currency disputes. In their own day, William G. Sumner, Albert S. Bolles, Charles J. Bullock, and Andrew M. Davis stood for sound against inflationist movements. One of their chief aims was to show the disastrous effects of wandering off the straight line of a sound-money policy.' Hence, they studied those colonies whose money depreciated and relied on the opinions of such eighteenth-century controversialists as Dr. William Douglass, Thomas Hutchinson, and others in whose views they concurred.2 With the notable exception of Andrew M. Davis, who did a

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