No full scale financial history of the Revolution and the early
national period has been written in the twentieth century. The
best of the older works are Charles J. Bullock, The Finances of the
United States from 1775 to 1789 ( Madison, 1895) and William Graham Sumner
, The Financier and the Finances of the American Revo-
lution ( New York, 1891). Scholarly and accurate within its range
is Clarence Ver Steeg, Robert Morris, Revolutionary Financier ( Phila-
delphia, 1954). Bray Hammond Banks and Politics in America
from the Revolution to the Civil War ( Princeton, 1957) devotes
four chapters to the period from 1694 to 1791.

In colonial public finance there are a few good studies of indi-
vidual provinces; a bibliography may be gathered from citations in
my article, "Currency Finance: An Interpretation of Colonial Mone-
tary Practices", William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 10 ( 1953),
153 - 80. But apart from Curtis P. Nettels, The Money Supply of
the American Colonies Before 1720 ( Madison, 1934), which is limited
in its chronological span, the only general work of merit is an un-
published doctoral dissertation by Leslie Van Horn Brock, The
Currency of the American Colonies, 1700 to 1764, University of
Michigan, 1941. New approaches are exemplified in two articles

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