The panic of 1819 : the first great depression /
Andrew H. Browning.
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (x, 439 pages : maps)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- The legacy of Napoleon: embargo, war, and peace -- Three revolutions: market, transportation, corporation -- Volcano weather -- Alabama fever: "I must go West and plant" -- Bank expansion: "frothy bubbles" -- Bank contraction: "the axe must be applied to the root of the evil" -- Hard times in the East: "a long continuation of distress" -- Hard times in the West: "reflections which almost unmans me" -- Relief? -- The politics of corruption and the corruption of politics -- A house dividing: the Panic of 1819 and the growth of sectionalism.