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U.S. Commercial Banking: A Historiographical Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

Larry Schweikart
Larry Schweikart
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Larry Schweikart is associate professor of history atthe University of Dayton.
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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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Business History Review , Volume 65 , Issue 3: Financial Services , Autumn 1991 , pp. 606 - 661
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1991

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