The panic of 1819 : the first great depression /
"The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real estate bubble, the Panic was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the United States, forming before the War of 1812, cresting with...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
[2019]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The legacy of Napoleon: embargo, war, and peace
- Three revolutions: market, transportation, corporation
- Volcano weather
- Alabama fever: "I must go West and plant"
- Bank expansion: "frothy bubbles"
- Bank contraction: "the axe must be applied to the root of the evil"
- Hard times in the East: "a long continuation of distress"
- Hard times in the West: "reflections which almost unmans me"
- Relief?
- The politics of corruption and the corruption of politics
- A house dividing: the Panic of 1819 and the growth of sectionalism.