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  • America's First Great Depression

  • Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Panic of 1837
  • By: Alasdair Roberts
  • Narrated by: Kevin Young
  • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary

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 to democracy was tested severely during this crisis. Foreign lenders questioned whether American politicians could make the unpopular decisions needed on spending and taxing. State and local officials struggled to put down riots and rebellion. A few wondered whether this was the end of America's democratic experiment.

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.

The book is published by Cornell University Press.

©20112 Cornell University (P)2013 Redwood Audiobooks
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Critic reviews

“This timely book will be of great use not just to students of economic history but also to readers who wish to find historical precedent for today's uncertain, turbulent times." ( Library Journal)
" America's First Great Depression is astute, compelling, concise, original, relevant, transatlantic, well-written, and witty." (Robert E. Wright, Augustana College, author of One Nation Under Debt and Fubarnomics)
“If you want to complete your education, America's First Great Depression is a good place to begin." (Richard Sylla, New York University, coauthor of A History of Interest Rates)

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