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UNINA9910789905303321 |
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Roberts Alasdair (Alasdair Scott) |
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America's first Great Depression [[electronic resource] ] : economic crisis and political disorder after the Panic of 1837 / / Alasdair Roberts |
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Depressions - 1836-1837 |
Depressions - 1847 |
Financial crises - United States - History - 19th century |
United States Economic conditions To 1865 |
United States Politics and government 1815-1861 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Back to the Future -- 1. Boom and Bust -- 2. The States' Crisis -- 3. The Federal Government's Crisis -- 4. Law and Order -- 5. The End of the Crisis -- Conclusion: Freedom, Order, and Economic Crisis -- Note on Method and Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910143619503321 |
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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface : 7th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting Balatonfüred, Hungary, September 10-13, 2000 Proceedings / / edited by Jack Dongarra, Peter Kacsuk, Norbert Podhorszki |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2000 |
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[1st ed. 2000.] |
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1 online resource (XVI, 368 p.) |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1908 |
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Programming languages (Electronic computers) |
Computer programming |
Computers |
Computer arithmetic and logic units |
Microprocessors |
Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters |
Programming Techniques |
Computation by Abstract Devices |
Arithmetic and Logic Structures |
Processor Architectures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Invited Speakers -- PVM and MPI: What Else Is Needed for Cluster |
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Computing? -- Managing Your Workforce on a Computational Grid -- Isolating and Interfacing the Components of a Parallel Computing Environment -- Symbolic Computing with Beowulf-Class PC Clusters -- High Speed Networks for Clusters, the BIP-Myrinet Experience -- Evaluation and Performance -- A Benchmark for MPI Derived Datatypes -- Working with MPI Benchmarking Suites on ccNUMA Architectures -- Performance Measurements on Dynamite/DPVM -- Validation of Dimemas Communication Model for MPI Collective Operations -- Automatic Performance Analysis of Master/Worker PVM Applications with Kpi -- MPI Optimization for SMP Based Clusters Interconnected with SCI -- Algorithms -- Parallel, Recursive Computation of Global Stability Charts for Liquid Bridges -- Handling Graphs According to a Coarse Grained Approach: Experiments with PVM and MPI -- Adaptive Multigrid Methods in MPI -- Multiple Parallel Local Searches in Global Optimization -- Towards Standard Nested Parallelism -- Pipeline Algorithms on MPI: Optimal Mapping of the Path Planing Problem -- Use of PVM for MAP Image Restoration: A Parallel Implementation of the ARTUR Algorithm -- Parallel Algorithms for the Least-Squares Finite Element Solution of the Neutron Transport Equation -- Extensions and Improvements -- GAMMA and MPI/GAMMA on Gigabit Ethernet -- Distributed Checkpointing Mechanism for a Parallel File System -- Thread Communication over MPI -- A Simple, Fault Tolerant Naming Space for the HARNESS Metacomputing System -- Runtime Checking of Datatype Signatures in MPI -- Implementation Issues -- A Scalable Process-Management Environment for Parallel Programs -- Single Sided Communications in Multi-protocol MPI -- MPI-2 Process Creation & Management Implementation for NT Clusters -- Composition of Message Passing Applications On-Demand -- Heterogeneous Distributed Systems -- An Architecture of Stampi: MPI Library on a Cluster of Parallel Computers -- Integrating MPI Components into Metacomputing Applications -- Tools -- PVMaple: A Distributed Approach to Cooperative Work of Maple Processes -- CIS - A Monitoring System for PC Clusters -- Monito: A Communication Monitoring Tool for a PVM-Linux Environment -- Interoperability of OCM-Based On-Line Tools -- Parallel Program Model for Distributed Systems -- Translation of a High-Level Graphical Code to Message-Passing Primitives in the GRADE Programming Environment -- The Transition from a PVM Program Simulator to a Heterogeneous System Simulator: The HeSSE Project -- Comparison of Different Approaches to Trace PVM Program Execution -- Applications in Science and Engineering -- Scalable CFD Computations Using Message-Passing and Distributed Shared Memory Algorithms -- Parallelization of Neural Networks Using PVM -- Parallel DSIR Text Indexing System: Using Multiple Master/Slave Concept -- Improving Optimistic PDES in PVM Environments -- Use of Parallel Computers in Neurocomputing -- A Distributed Computing Environment for Genetic Programming Using MPI -- Experiments with Parallel Monte Carlo Simulation for Pricing Options Using PVM -- Time Independent 3D Quantum Reactive Scattering on MIMD Parallel Computers -- FT-MPI: Fault Tolerant MPI, Supporting Dynamic Applications in a Dynamic World -- ACCT: Automatic Collective Communications Tuning. |
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Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) and Message Passing Interface (MPI) are the most frequently used tools for programming according to the message passing paradigm, which is considered one of the best ways to develop parallel applications. This volume comprises 42 revised contributions presented at the Seventh European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, which was held in Balatonfr ed, Hungary, 10 13 September 2000. The conference was organized by the Laboratory of Parallel and |
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Distributed Systems of the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This conference was previously held in Barcelona, Spain (1999), Liverpool, UK (1998) and Cracow, Poland (1997). The first three conferences were devoted to PVM and were held at the Technische Universit t M nchen, Germany (1996), Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, France (1995), and University of Rome, Italy (1994). This conference has become a forum for users and developers of PVM, MPI, and other message passing environments. Interaction between those groups has proved to be very useful for developing new ideas in parallel computing and for applying existing ideas to new practical fields. The main topics of the meeting were evaluation and performance of PVM and MPI, extensions and improvements to PVM and MPI, algorithms using the message passing paradigm, and applications in science and engineering based on message passing. The conference included four tutorials and five invited talks on advances in MPI, cluster computing, network computing, grid computing, and SGI parallel computers and programming systems. |
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