Excerpts from The Pocket Cambist, a guide for exchanging currency between countries, 1836.

A cambist is a person whose job is exchanging money or a manual with guidance for exchanging money of different national currencies. In the 1830s, the US was part of a vast system of international trade and financial exchange dominated by England as the global financial power.

Citation Information
Vere, Charles, excerpts from “The pocket cambist, containing tables of monies of the principal cities in all parts of the world ... with tables of exchange,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/a3572421fd7561cc0d242d17b6e4ec30.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of University of Michigan via HathiTrust.

Tips for Students

For this source, consider:

  • the author's point of view
  • the author's purpose
  • historical context
  • audience