The Bank War and the Partisan Press : Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America /
"President Andrew Jackson's conflict with the Second Bank of the United States was one of the most consequential political struggles in the early nineteenth century. A fight over the bank's reauthorization, the Bank War, provoked fundamental disagreements over the role of money in pol...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
2019.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Public printers, private struggles: the party press and the early American state
- "A very able state paper": Amos Kendall and the rise of the globe
- The monster strikes back: Nicholas Biddle and the public relations campaign to recharter the second bank, 1818-1832
- Monster news! veto and reelection
- Two sides of the same coin: the panic of 1833-1834 and the loss of public support
- An unholy trinity: banks, newspapers, and postmasters during the post office scandal, 1834-1835
- Conclusion: 1835 and beyond
- Appendix one: how the bank worked
- Appendix two: average percentage of domestic bills of exchange purchased at each branch office according to region, 1832
- Appendix three: BUS note circulation, divided by branch offices in slave states and free states, February 1832
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.