Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics - The Money That Made Mexico and the United States

Tracing the history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States, Seijas and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos paralleled these countries’ efforts to establish enduring political and economic systems, clearly illustrating why these nations closed the nineteenth century on very different historical trajectories.

List of contents

Timeline
Introduction

Chapter 1 Emblems of Liberty
Chapter 2 The Ghost of a Dollar
Chapter 3 Minting Mexico's Independence
Chapter 4 North America's Third Republic
Chapter 5 Buying Mexico
Chapter 6 Border Coppers
Chapter 7 Gold Recklessness
Chapter 8 Defending the Republics

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Bibliography

About the author

Tatiana Seijas, Jake Frederick

Summary

Tracing the history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States, Seijas and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos paralleled these countries' efforts to establish enduring political and economic systems, clearly illustrating why these nations closed the nineteenth century on very different historical trajectories.

Product details

• Authors: Jake Frederick, Frederick Jake, Tatiana Seijas, Tatiana Frederick Seijas, Seijas Tatiana
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2017
• EAN: 9781442265202
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-6520-2
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, Mexico, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Monetary Economics