{"product_id":"promise-to-pay-katie-a-moore-9780226835815","title":"Promise to Pay: The Politics and Power of Money in Early America","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn incisive account of the crucial role money played in the formation and development of British North America. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePromise to Pay\u003c\/i\u003e follows America's first paper money--the \"bills of credit\" of British North America--from its seventeenth-century origins as a means of war finance to its pivotal role in catalyzing the American Revolution. Katie A. Moore combs through treasury records, account books, and the bills themselves to tell a new story of money's origins that challenges economic orthodoxy and mainstream histories. \u003ci\u003ePromise to Pay\u003c\/i\u003e shows how colonial governments imposed paper bills on settler communities through existing labor and kinship relations, their value secured by thousands of individual claims on the public purse--debts--and the state's promise to take them back as payment for taxes owed. Born into a world of hierarchy and deference, early American money eroded old social ties and created new asymmetries of power, functioning simultaneously as a ticket to the world of goods, a lifeline for those on the margins, and a tool of imperial domination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Grounded in sustained engagement with scholarship from multiple disciplines, \u003ci\u003ePromise to Pay\u003c\/i\u003e breathes new life into old debates and offers an incisive account of the centrality of money in the politics and conflicts of empire, community, and everyday life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katie A. Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226835812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226835815\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Katie A. Moore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46489405063423,"sku":"9780226835815","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_345f0ac0-7db3-4825-9b39-cd82563a5ef2.jpg?v=1736953459","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/promise-to-pay-katie-a-moore-9780226835815","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}