Sklansky Jeffrey. Sovereign of the Market: The Money Question in Early America

University of Chicago Press, 2017. — ISBN:
9780226480473This book is about the long class struggle over the rise of money as not only the means of payment, but also the means of rule. The conflict over currency that Taylor prefigured began in England in the early 1620s, crossed the Atlantic with the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony later that decade, and critically shaped American class relations until the first decades of the twentieth century. Through a series of intellectual biographies, this book explores why the creation and organization of money became a searing political question for early Americans, ranging far beyond market relations, and how the terms and poles of public debate were transformed over the course of capitalist development.