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1 online resource (xviii, 337 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Summary |
"Covering events such as banking crises, economic bubbles, natural disasters, trade embargos, and depressions, this single-volume encyclopedia of major U.S. financial downturns provides readers with an event-driven understanding of the evolution of the American economy"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1676. Bacon's rebellion -- 1703. Tobacco depression -- 1719. Mississippi bubble -- 1733. Molasses act -- 1749. Colonial hyperinflation and currency deflation -- 1750. Iron act -- 1762. Colonial recession -- 1764-1765. Sugar act, currency act, and stamp act boycotts -- 1772. Credit crisis -- 1776. War financing crisis -- 1781. Currency deflation and inflation -- 1790. Debt assumption, debt retirement, and expanding the economy -- 1792. Panic -- 1794. Whiskey tax rebellion -- 1796-1797. Panic -- 1800. Trade interference by Barbary Coast pirates -- 1807. Economic embargo and depression -- 1812. War of 1812 -- 1816-1819. Economic Warfare and Dumping by Great Britain -- 1819. Panic -- 1820s. Cotton Recession -- 1825. British Panic and Its American Impact -- 1828. Tariff of Abominations -- 1833. Andrew Jackson Closes the Bank of the United States and Lowers Tariffs -- 1837. Panic and Six-Year Depression -- 1847. Panic -- 1848. Gold Rush Boom and Bust -- 1850. Whale Oil Shortage : The First Energy Crisis -- 1854. Panic -- 1854. Decline of American Canals -- 1857. Panic -- 1861. Civil War Economics, Shortages, and Inflation -- 1862. Union Blockade and Inflation -- 1869. Grant's Recession -- 1873. Panic and Global Depression -- 1877. Great National Railroad Strike -- 1880s. New England Energy Crisis -- 1882. Bessemer Process and the Labor Crisis -- 1882. Recession -- 1884. Panic -- 1890. British Panic -- 1893. Panic -- 1894. National Labor Unrest -- 1896. Gold Crisis -- 1899. Ohio Gas Industry Collapse -- 1901. Rich Man's Panic -- 1902. National Anthracite Coal Strike -- 1907. Panic -- 1910. Rubber Shortage and Price Explosion -- 1914-1918. War Shortages -- 1914. Crisis -- 1917. Boll Weevil Cotton Crisis -- 1918. Flu Pandemic -- 1919. National Steel Strike -- 1921. Automotive Recession -- 1921. British Rubber Embargo and Monopoly Control -- 1922. Peanut Import Crisis -- 1929. Wall Street Crash and Great Depression -- 1930s. Agricultural Depression and the Dust Bowl -- 1936-1939. Labor Uprisings -- 1937-1938. Recession -- 1940s. World War II Rationing and Shortages -- 1941. Rubber Crisis and Shortage -- 1943. Steel, Metal, and Alloy Shortage Crisis -- 1947. Economic Restructuring of America : Taft-Hartley Act -- 1947. Mont Pelerin: A Crisis in Economic Thought and Academia -- 1959. National Steel Strike -- 1965. Auto Import Challenge and the Fall of the American Auto Industry -- 1969. Technological Tire Crisis : Radial Tire Production Ends U.S. Rubber Dominance -- 1971. Wage and Price Controls -- 1973. Arab Oil Embargo Crisis -- 1974. Double-Digit Inflation -- 1975. Rapid Deindustrialization -- 1977. Natural Gas Shortage Crisis -- 1979. Nuclear Energy Crisis : Three Mile Island -- 1979. First Chrysler Bankruptcy -- 1980s. The Rust Belt -- 1981. Air Traffic Controllers' Strike -- 1982. Collapse of the Steel Industry -- 1982. Recession -- 1986. Savings and Loan Crisis -- 1987. Black Monday -- 1992. Hurricane Andrew -- 1992-1994. North American Free Trade Agreement -- 1994. Mexican Peso Crisis -- 1996. Decline of Southern Textile and Furniture Industries -- 1997. Asian Financial Crisis -- 1998. Russian Financial Crisis -- 2000. The Y2K Crisis -- 2000. Dot.Com Bubble -- 2001. September 11 Terrorist Attack and Recession -- 2005. Hurricane Katrina -- 2008. Banking and Subprime Mortgage Crisis -- 2009. Great Recession -- 2009. General Motors Bankruptcy -- 2010. Gulf Oil Spill -- 2012. European Sovereign Debt Crisis : U.S. Exports and Banking Impacts -- 2012. San Bernardino, California, Bankruptcy -- 2012. Hurricane Sandy -- 2013. Detroit Bankruptcy. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Financial crises -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias.
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Financial crises. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Encyclopedias.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- Encyclopedias.
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Banks and banking -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias.
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Banks and banking. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative. |
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Economic conditions. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. |
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Economic history. |
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Encyclopedia.
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Electronic books.
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encyclopedias.
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History.
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Encyclopedias.
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| Added Title |
Hundred most important American financial crises |
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One hundred most important American financial crises |
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Print version: Skrabec, Quentin R. 100 most important American financial crises. Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015] 9781440830112 (DLC) 2014022053 (OCoLC)874727965 |
| ISBN |
1440830126 (electronic book) |
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9781440830129 (electronic book) |
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9781440830112 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1440830118 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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