Books Details
Author : Jessica M. Lepler Pages : 356 pages Publisher : Cambridge University
Press Language : ISBN-10 : 1107640865 ISBN-13 : 9781107640863
Books Descriptions
In the spring of 1837, people panicked as financial and economic uncertainty
spread within and between New York, New Orleans, and London. Although the
period of panic would dramatically influence political, cultural, and social
history, those who panicked sought to erase from history their experiences of
one of America's worst early financial crises. The Many Panics of 1837
reconstructs the period between March and May 1837 in order to make
arguments about the national boundaries of history, the role of information in
the economy, the personal and local nature of national and international events,
the origins and dissemination of economic ideas, and most importantly, what
actually happened in 1837. This riveting transatlantic cultural history, based on
archival research on two continents, reveals how people transformed their
experiences of financial crisis into the "Panic of 1837," a single event that would
serve as a turning point in American history and an early inspiration for
