Minting America [electronic resource] : coinage and the contestation of American identity, 1775-1800 / by James Patrick Ambuske.

• "Minting America" investigates the ideological and culture links between American identity and national coinage in the wake of the American Revolution. In the Confederation period and in the Early Republic, Americans contested the creation of a national mint to produce coins. The catastrophic failure of the paper money issued by the Continental Congress during the War for Independence inspired an ideological debate in which Americans considered the broader implications of a national coinage. More than a means to conduct commerce, many citizens of the new nation saw coins as tangible representations of sovereignty and as a mechanism to convey the principles of the Revolution to future generations. They contested the physical symbolism as well as the rhetorical iconology of these early national coins. Debating the stories that coinage told helped Americans in this period shape the contours of a national identity. 

Ämnesord

Coinage  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Monetary policy  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Nationalism  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Early American Republic 

American Revolution 

American National Identity 

United States Coinage 

Rhetorical Iconology 

Continental Currency 

Continental Dollar 

United States Mint 

Colonial currency 

specie 

imagined communities 

money 

coinage 

American symbolism 

historical memory 

Liberty Cap 

American War for Independence 

Articles of Confederation 

paper money 

Benjamin Franklin 

Robert Morris 

Alexander Hamilton 

Thomas Jefferson 

Institutionsnamn

Mint of the United States -- History.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Early American Republic American Revolution American National Identity United States Coinage Rhetorical Iconology Continental Currency Continental Dollar United States Mint Colonial currency specie imagined communities money coinage American symbolism historical memory Liberty Cap American War for Independence Articles of Confederation paper money Benjamin Franklin Robert Morris Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson