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Alasdair Roberts - America´s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 - 9780801450334 - V9780801450334
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America´s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837

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Description for America´s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14, 8 black & white halftones, 1 black & white tables, 5 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 428.

For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed with political and social unrest. In America's First Great Depression, Alasdair Roberts describes how the United States dealt with the economic and political crisis that followed the Panic of 1837.

As Roberts shows, the two decades that preceded the Panic had marked a democratic surge in the United States. However, the nation's commitment ... Read more

Roberts explains how the country's woes were complicated by its dependence on foreign trade and investment, particularly with Britain. Aware of the contemporary relevance of this story, Roberts examines how the country responded to the political and cultural aftershocks of 1837, transforming its political institutions to strike a new balance between liberty and social order, and uneasily coming to terms with its place in the global economy.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801450334
SKU
V9780801450334
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About Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts is Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School. He is the author of The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government, The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government, and Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age. He is also a Fellow of ... Read more

Reviews for America´s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837
America's First Great Depressionis an engaging book that could spark classroom debate on a number of important topics: internal improvements, the changing role of state governments, Anglo-American relations, immigration, urbanization, Jacksonian democracy, the Bank War, tariff issues, and the federal role in regulating the economy, slavery, and westward expansion. Roberts does a particularly fine job of placing this period of ... Read more

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