{"product_id":"book-1xac","title":"Promise to Pay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn incisive account of the crucial role money played in the formation and development of British North America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePromise to Pay\u003c\/em\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. \u003cem\u003ePromise to Pay\u003c\/em\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.\u003cbr\u003eGrounded in sustained engagement with scholarship from multiple disciplines, \u003cem\u003ePromise to Pay\u003c\/em\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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67150524612912,"sku":"BD1xac","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1xac-Square-cover.png?v=1782488341","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1xac","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}