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Minting America: Coinage and the Contestation of American Identity, 1775-1800
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Ambuske, James Patrick
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1164981401
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2006, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
Abstract
“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.
Committee
Andrew Cayton (Advisor)
Pages
67 p.
Subject Headings
History, United States
Keywords
Early American Republic
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American Revolution
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American National Identity
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United States Coinage
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Rhetorical Iconology
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Continental Currency
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Continental Dollar
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United States Mint
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Colonial currency
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specie
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imagined communities
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money
;
coinage
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Ambuske, J. P. (2006).
Minting America: Coinage and the Contestation of American Identity, 1775-1800
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1164981401
APA Style (7th edition)
Ambuske, James.
Minting America: Coinage and the Contestation of American Identity, 1775-1800.
2006. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1164981401.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Ambuske, James. "Minting America: Coinage and the Contestation of American Identity, 1775-1800." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1164981401
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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