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U.S. Commercial Banking: A Historiographical Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

Larry Schweikart
Affiliation:
Larry Schweikart is associate professor of history atthe University of Dayton.

Extract

In this wide-ranging essay, a banking historian surveys the major debates in the historiography of U.S. commercial banking. Touching on various controversies in the field—old, new, and brewing, from financing the Revolution to the savings and loan crisis—the article serves as a guide to the parameters of debate and provides an introductory bibliography to acquaint interested readers with banking literature from colonial times to the present.

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Surveys and Debates
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1991

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