Goldbugs and Greenbacks : The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865-1896 (Hardcover)

1. The money debate and American political development; 2. Party politics and the financial debate, 1865?1896; 3. Greenbacks versus gold: the contest over finance in the 1870s; 4. The 'people's money': Greenbackism in North Carolina, Illinois and Massachusetts; 5. The battle of the standards: the financial debate of the 1890s; 6. Populism and the politics of finance in North Carolina, Illinois and Massachusetts in the 1890s; 7. Money, history, and American political development; Appendix A. Financial terms of the 1870s and 1890s; Appendix B. Major banking and currency legislation, 1860?1900; Appendix C. An antimonopolist reading of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.