Jonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt litigation in Western Massachusetts, deflation and monetary illiquidity, and the Bank of North America.

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JONATHAN M. CHU Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.

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PART I: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF INDEPENDENCE Independence, the United States and the Atlantic Community Reorienting Trade: The Origins of Sino-American Trade American Merchants in the Post-Revolutionary World Debt and Taxes: State Action, the Economy, and Individual Behavior Illiquidity, Depression, and Debt Litigation in Western Massachusetts PART II: FROM ILLIQUIDITY TO CONSTITUTIONALISM Paper Money: Defining Values, Negotiating Equity A Necessary Expedient: Monetary Stability and the Bank of North America The Bank of North America, A Dreadful Engine of Oppression The Unfinished Revolution: A Uniform System of Commercial Intercourse and Regulations