Jessica M. Lepler

The Many Panics of 1837

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Produktbeschreibung

Reveals how people transformed their experiences of financial crisis into a single event that would serve as a turning point in American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781107640863
• ISBN-10: 1107640865
• Artikelnr.: 38257871

Autorenporträt

Jessica M. Lepler is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. The Society of American Historians awarded her Brandeis University doctoral dissertation, '1837: Anatomy of a Panic', the 2008 Allan Nevins Prize. She has been the recipient of a Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society, a Dissertation Fellowship from the Library Company of Philadelphia's Program in Early American Economy and Society, a John E. Rovensky Dissertation Fellowship in Business History and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the US Department of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the many panics of 1837
1. A very gamblous affair
2. The pressure of 1836
3. Practical economists
4. Mysterious whispers
5. The many panics in 1837
6. Parallel crises
7. States of suspense
Epilogue: panic-less panics of 1837.