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Transatlantic speculations : globalization and the panics of 1873 /

Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on nineteenth-century globalization by exploring the ways in which the crises of 1873 challenged notions of economic and moral order. She maps the dual "transatlantic speculations": the financial speculation that led to these panics as well as the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davies, Hannah Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Setting the Stage: Institutions and Cultures of Speculation in the 1860s and Early 1870s; 2. The Virtual World of Financial Information and the Making of a Bubble; 3. Predicting and Experiencing the Panics of 1873; 4. Flows of Paper, Flows of Gold: Theorizing the Panics; 5. Capitalism, Conspiracy, Corruption, and the Moral Economy of a Financial Crisis; 6. Criminalizing Promoters, Protecting Shareholders; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.