The color of money and the nature of value: Greenbacks and gold in postbellum America

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1556-1591

  Carruthers, Bruce G ^a   Babb, Sarah ^a  

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DOI: 10.1086/230867     Document Type: Article

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