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AB  - Roberts examines the financial, political, and social upheavals that occurred in the United States in the decade following the Panic of 1837, which he calls the First Great Depression. The years leading up to the panic, he says, were a time of boom marked by geographic expansion, the near elimination of the national debt, states borrowing large sums for improvement projects, and land values that appeared to be rising without end. He explains that the panic caused a deep economic depression that resulted in loan defaults by nine states, federal gridlock, a breakdown of law and order, a loss of faith in banks, and a slow recovery for the U.S. economy, which came back only after the Mexican War. Parallels to the country's current economic recession are clear throughout the text, and Roberts makes explicit comparisons in his conclusion.
AU  - Roberts, Alasdair
CN  - ProQuest Ebook Central
CN  - ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete
CN  - HB3717 1837
CY  - Ithaca :
DA  - 2012.
ID  - 438713
KW  - Depressions
KW  - Depressions
KW  - Financial crises
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N2  - Roberts examines the financial, political, and social upheavals that occurred in the United States in the decade following the Panic of 1837, which he calls the First Great Depression. The years leading up to the panic, he says, were a time of boom marked by geographic expansion, the near elimination of the national debt, states borrowing large sums for improvement projects, and land values that appeared to be rising without end. He explains that the panic caused a deep economic depression that resulted in loan defaults by nine states, federal gridlock, a breakdown of law and order, a loss of faith in banks, and a slow recovery for the U.S. economy, which came back only after the Mexican War. Parallels to the country's current economic recession are clear throughout the text, and Roberts makes explicit comparisons in his conclusion.
PB  - Cornell University Press,
PP  - Ithaca :
PY  - 2012.
SN  - 9780801464201
T1  - America's first Great Depressioneconomic crisis and political disorder after the Panic of 1837 /
TI  - America's first Great Depressioneconomic crisis and political disorder after the Panic of 1837 /
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