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Autore: | McCulley Richard T. <1946-, > |
Titolo: | Banks and politics during the progressive era : the origins of the Federal Reserve System, 1897-1913 / / Richard T. McCulley |
Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
Disciplina: | 332.1/12/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Banks and banking - United States - History |
Monetary policy - United States - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States History 1865-1921 |
Note generali: | First published in 1992 by Garland Publishing, Inc. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-323) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | BANKS AND POLITICS DURING THE PROGRESSIVE ERAThe Origins of the Federal Reserve System, 1897-1913; Copyright; BANKS AND POLITICS DURING THE PROGRESSIVE ERATHE ORIGINS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, 1897-1913; Original Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER I: Money, Banks and Politics during the Nineteenth Century; CHAPTER II: The Republicans and the Gold Standard Act of 1900; CHAPTER III: Republican Financial Deadlock, 1901-1904; CHAPTER IV: Prelude to Panic, 1905-1907; CHAPTER V: Panic and Reaction, 1907-1910; CHAPTER VI: Wall Street Consolidation, 1911 |
CHAPTER VII: Toward Self-Regulation, 1911CHAPTER VIII: The Aldrich Plan, 1911; CHAPTER IX: The Counteroffensive, 1912-1913; CHAPTER X: Conclusion: The Democrats' Ambiguous Financial Legacy; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Despite the political potency of money and banking issues, historians have largely dismissed the Progressive Era political debate over banking as irrelevant and have been preoccupied with explaining the shortcomings, limitations and inadequacies of the Federal Reserve Act. The picture that has emerged is one of bankers controlling the course of financial reform with the assistance of political leaders who were either subservient, hopelessly naive or insincere in their public opposition to bankers. This book places their exertions in a larger, unfolding political context and traces in an ana |
Titolo autorizzato: | Banks and politics during the progressive era |
ISBN: | 1-136-30118-6 |
1-280-77770-2 | |
9786613688095 | |
1-136-30119-4 | |
0-203-11688-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779261803321 |
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