| Description |
2 volumes (xviii, 864 pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
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Defining documents in American history |
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Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)
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| Form |
Issued also as an ebook. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
From the American Revolution to the present day, our financial institutions and financial practices--from banks to the stock market to tariffs to bailouts--remain at the core of our behaviors, our politics, and even our beliefs. The documents in this set discuss the political and social currents that have affected the nation's economy and have had an impact on the fortunes of individuals, businesses and corporations, banks and lending institutions, the stock market, and the federal government. Some of the documents considered in this two-volume set include: The Panic of 1819, The Financial Panic of 1837, The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, Black Monday (1987), The Dot-Com Crash (2001), The Great Recession (2008), and The Coronavirus Pandemic (2020). Each in-depth chapter provides a thorough commentary and analysis of each primary source document, often reprinted in its entirety. Commentary includes a Summary, Overview, Defining Moment, Author Biography, Detailed Document Analysis, and discussion of Essential Themes. -- Publisher. |
| Contents |
Volume 1. Commerce & controversy in earlier times. Booms & busts in a growing economy -- volume 2. Crash, burn and recovery in the Great Depression. Mid-century modern. Business and economics in recent decades. |
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Commerce & controversy in earlier times. "Advice to a young tradesman" -- Adam Smith, from The theory of moral sentiments -- Letter from Robert Morris to Alexander Martin -- Federalist no. 35 (concerning the general power of taxation) -- Patent Act of 1790 -- Thomas Jefferson on the constitutionality of a national bank -- Alexander Hamilton on the constitutionality of a national bank -- The Whiskey Tax of 1791 and George Washington's proclamation regarding the Whiskey Rebellion -- McCulloch v. Maryland -- Henry Clay's speech on American industry -- Gibbons v. Ogden -- Andrew Jackson's bank veto message -- Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge -- The discovery of gold in California -- "Cotton is king" -- Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade -- "The money power" -- Booms & busts in a growing economy. Documents relating to Black Friday, 1869 -- Observations regarding the transcontinental railroad -- Cornelius Vanderbilt cartoon, map, and illustration -- Bell telephone patent -- From Progress and poverty -- Sharecropping contract -- Dawes Severalty Act -- Andrew Carnegie : "The gospel of wealth" -- Eugene Debs : "What can we do for working people?" -- Sherman Antitrust Act -- "Wall Street owns the country" -- Populist party platform -- President Grover Cleveland on repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act -- "Political causes of the business depression" -- "The absurd effort to make the world over" -- "Cross of gold" speech -- From The theory of the leisure class -- Theodore Roosevelt on corporate trusts -- Eugene v. Debs : "How I became a socialist" -- Robert La Follette on amending the national banking laws -- John D. Rockefeller on Standard Oil -- Remarks on politics and business -- Federal Reserve Act -- Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Clayton Act -- A survey of American war readiness -- From My life and work / Henry Ford -- Crash, burn and recovery in the Great Depression. President Hoover responds to the stock market crash -- President Roosevelt : fireside chat on "The forgotten man" -- FDR on government's role in the economy -- President Roosevelt : fireside chat outlining the New Deal -- John Maynard Keynes : an open letter to President Roosevelt -- "Share our wealth" address -- Letter-report concerning the Tennessee Valley -- FDR on social security -- Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States -- President Roosevelt : fireside chat on the current recession -- Mid-century modern. Lend-Lease Act -- From Capitalism, socialism and democracy -- Letter to Robert Oppenheimer regarding a "special laboratory" in New Mexico -- From The fountainhead -- From The road to serfdom -- Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer -- What's good for General Motors ... -- Eisenhower message to Congress regarding a national highway program -- Eisenhower on science in national security -- National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 -- Patent application for "miniaturized electronic circuits" -- JFK : "We choose to go to the moon" -- Proposal for a nationwide war on the sources of poverty -- IBM System 360 announcement -- Business and economics in recent decades. "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits" -- The "Powell memo" : attack on the free enterprise system -- Gerald R. Ford's state of the union address, 1975 -- Bill Gates' letter to hobbyists -- Jimmy Carter's second state of the union address -- The Laffer Curve -- Ronald Reagan on the strategic defense initiative -- "Greed is good" -- Lost American jobs tied to unfair French competition -- North American Free Trade Agreement -- Netscape Network Navigator web browser launch -- Interview with former fed chairman Paul Volcker -- Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- Paula Dobriansky : "On working together to build prosperity" -- Apple announces the iPhone -- Lehman Brothers, announcement of bankruptcy -- Foreclosure in the nation's capital : how unfair and reckless lending undermines homeownership -- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a synopsis -- From Big business : a love letter to an American anti-hero -- Congressional leaders on a second COVID-19 relief package -- New Jersey adopts "millionaire's tax" -- Appendixes. Chronological list -- Web resources -- Bibliography. |
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United States -- Economic conditions -- History -- Sources.
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United States -- Economic policy -- History -- Sources.
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United States -- Politics and government -- History -- Sources.
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Social change -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Sources.
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Financial crises -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Business cycles -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Business cycles. (OCoLC)fst00842457
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Economic policy. (OCoLC)fst00902025
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Financial crises. (OCoLC)fst00924607
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Social change -- Economic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01122314
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Economic policy -- United States.
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Economic history.
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Economic policy.
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United States -- Economic conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| Added Author |
Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781642657562 (set) |
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1642657565 |
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9781642657579 (volume 1) |
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1642657573 (volume 1) |
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9781642657586 (volume 2) |
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1642657581 (volume 2) |
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9781642657593 (electronic book) |
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