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A nation of deadbeats : an uncommon history of America's financial disasters

Title
A nation of deadbeats : an uncommon history of America's financial disasters / Scott Reynolds Nelson.
Author
Nelson, Scott Reynolds.
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

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Description
xvi, 330 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Financial crises > United States > History
  • Recessions > United States > History
  • Depressions > History
  • United States > Economic conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-319) and index.
Contents
Duer's disgrace -- A botanizing excursion -- Monkey jackets, the uncorked Mississippi, and the birth of caterpillar banks -- The second bank, the monkey jacket war, and Tenskwatawa's revenge -- The politics of panic, the economics of rags -- Leviathan -- Of swamps and calculus -- Ceres Americana -- A storm of wheat -- Crosses of gold -- Who put the roar in the Roaring Twenties? -- Conclusions, conclusions.
Call Number
JBE 18-139
ISBN
  • 9780307272690
  • 0307272699
LCCN
2012025264
OCLC
2012025264
Author
Nelson, Scott Reynolds.
Title
A nation of deadbeats : an uncommon history of America's financial disasters / Scott Reynolds Nelson.
Imprint
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-319) and index.
Research Call Number
JBE 18-139
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