{"product_id":"money-and-the-making-of-the-american-revolution-9780691200262","title":"Money and the Making of the American Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformative monetary contest\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerican money and American democracy have always been in tension, pitting political equality against economic inequality. In \u003ci\u003eMoney and the Making of the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrew David Edwards shows how this struggle emerged in America's founding era. Everyone knows that the founders waged a revolt against taxation without representation. Edwards shows that the dispute over taxes was really a dispute over money: what it was, who could make it, and how to keep it from being used at the expense of the colonists in North America. The colonial rebels refocused their resistance on democratic, local control--defending the power they had used to make money for themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdwards's narrative spans four continents, linking the problems of money and revolt in early America to the transatlantic slave trade, the disastrous mismanagement of the East India Company in India, and violence against Native Americans. His analysis emerges from the story itself, through the lives of individuals ranging from John Blackwell, Oliver Cromwell's one-time war treasurer, to Thomas Paine, the impassioned pamphleteer of the American Revolution. Edwards argues that as the republican vision of an agrarian, independent monetary system faded, the leaders of the Revolution tied the nation to capitalism and imperialism at its founding. The colonists may have won the battle for representation, but the money that underpinned European empire had established a stronghold in the new republic. \u003ci\u003eMoney and the Making of the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers both an ambitious new interpretation of the Revolution and a fascinating story about the power of economic ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew David Edwards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691200262","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45063222984841,"sku":"9780691200262","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_432fdc7b-6caa-4450-81b4-eb97409dc01d.jpg?v=1765915697","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/money-and-the-making-of-the-american-revolution-9780691200262","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}