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Greenback Era

Author : Irwin Unger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400877660
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Greenback Era written by Irwin Unger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greenback Era is not a financial history; rather, it is an attempt to locate the source of political power in the crucial Reconstruction years through a socio-economic study of American financial conflict during the years 1865 to 1879. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Greenback Dollar

Author : William J. Bush
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810881926
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Greenback Dollar written by William J. Bush and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How big an act was the Kingston Trio? Big enough that the their first 19 albums not only reached Billboard's Top 100, but 14 of them entered the top 10, with five albums alone hitting the no. 1 spot At the height of their popularity, the Kingston Trio was arguably the most popular vocal group in the world, having single-handedly ushered in the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s. Their meteoric rise quite literally paved the way for Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul & Mary; and the many acts that followed in their wake. With the release of their version of "Tom Dooley" in fall 1958, the Kingston Trio changed American popular music forever, inspiring legions of young listeners to pick up guitars and banjoes and join together in hootenannies and sing-alongs. In Greenback Dollar: The Incredible Rise of The Kingston Trio, the first in-depth biography of America's first recording super-group, William J. Bush retraces the band members' personal and professional lives, from their rapid rise to stardom to their early retirement in 1967. Through interviews with Trio members, their families, and associates, Bush paints a detailed portrait of the Trio's formative early years and sudden popular success, their innovations in recording technology, pioneering of the college concert and intensive tour schedule, their impact on and response to the '60s protest movement, the first break-up of the Trio with Dave Guard's departure, and its re-formation with John Stewart. Lovers of folk music and students and scholars of the history of popular music and the music business, the counterculture movement, and the American folk tradition will find in Greenback Dollar a remarkably detailed view of the musical and cultural legacy that resulted in the Kingston Trio receiving a 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.

The Greenback Era

Author : Irwin Unger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691005584
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Greenback Era written by Irwin Unger and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Greenback Era, will be forthcoming.

Goldbugs and Greenbacks

Author : Gretchen Ritter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521653923
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Goldbugs and Greenbacks written by Gretchen Ritter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the late-nineteenth-century money debates in American politics, and about the role of history in American political development.

The Civil War's Last Campaign

Author : Mark A. Lause
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War's Last Campaign written by Mark A. Lause and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War's Last Campaign is a narrative history of General James B. Weaver's 1880 Presidential campaign as the Greenback-Labor party candidate. In the course of its narrative of the campaign, this study describes a complex coalition with interdependent conservative, radical and pragmatic currents essential to a mass insurgency. This account of his active campaigning offers a new look at America's society, values and politics in the postwar Gilded Age.

History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II, A

Author : Murray Newton Rothbard
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610164350
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II, A written by Murray Newton Rothbard and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gold and Freedom

Author : Nicolas Barreyre
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937752
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Gold and Freedom written by Nicolas Barreyre and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader national political developments. Yet at its core, Reconstruction was a battle for the legacy of the Civil War that would determine the political fate not only of the South but of the nation. In Gold and Freedom, Nicolas Barreyre recovers the story of how economic issues became central to American politics after the war. The idea that a financial debate was as important for Reconstruction as emancipation may seem remarkable, but the war created economic issues that all Americans, not just southerners, had to grapple with, including a huge debt, an inconvertible paper currency, high taxation, and tariffs. Alongside the key issues of race and citizenship, the struggle with the new economic model and the type of society it created pervaded the entire country. Both were legacies of war. Both were fought over by the same citizens in a newly reunited nation. It was thus impossible for such closely related debates to proceed independently. A truly groundbreaking work, Gold and Freedom shows how much the fate of Reconstruction—and the political world it ultimately created—owed to northern sectional divisions, revealing important links between race and economy, as well as region and nation, not previously recognized.

The Gilded Age

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of the Federal Colossus

Author : Peter Zavodnyik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313392943
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Federal Colossus written by Peter Zavodnyik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This challenging book explores the debates over the scope of the enumerated powers of Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment that accompanied the expansion of federal authority during the period between the beginning of the Civil War and the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Rise of the Federal Colossus: The Growth of Federal Power from Lincoln to F.D.R. offers readers a front-row seat for the critical phases of a debate that is at the very center of American history, exploring such controversial issues as what powers are bestowed on the federal government, what its role should be, and how the Constitution should be interpreted. The book argues that the critical period in the growth of federal power was not the New Deal and the three decades that followed, but the preceding 72 years when important precedents establishing the national government's authority to aid citizens in distress, regulate labor, and take steps to foster economic growth were established. The author explores newspaper and magazine articles, as well as congressional debates and court opinions, to determine how Americans perceived the growing authority of their national government and examine arguments over whether novel federal activities had any constitutional basis. Responses of government to the enormous changes that took place during this period are also surveyed.

Alternative Tracks

Author : Gerald Berk
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801856365
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Tracks written by Gerald Berk and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-07-23 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berk concludes that our understanding of historical political economy must take markets, technologies, and organizational forms as the contingent outcomes of such constitutional politics, rather than as premeditated contexts for state and economic development.

John A. Logan

Author : James Pickett Jones
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809323890
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book John A. Logan written by James Pickett Jones and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James P. Jones ... uses newspaper accounts, private letters, and the records of Congress to examine Major General John A. Logan's return to his political and legislative career after the Civil War. Logan emerged from the national conflict a military hero and uncommitted to any political party ... By 1884 his personality and fiercely defended principles had earned him the vice-presidential nomination on the ill-fated Republican ticket. Many writers on this period have portrayed Logan as a corrupt politician, but Jones successfully clears the Illinoisan's record"--Description of previous edition.

Roots of Reform

Author : Elizabeth Sanders
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734773
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Roots of Reform written by Elizabeth Sanders and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a revision of the understanding of the rise of the American regulatory state in the late 19th century, this book argues that politically mobilised farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control.

The American Stamp

Author : Laura Goldblatt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231557337
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The American Stamp written by Laura Goldblatt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal iconography gradually expanded as the Postal Service sought to depict the country’s history in all its diversity. This vast breadth has helped make stamp collecting a widespread hobby and made stamps into consumer goods in their own right. Examining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. They argue that postage stamps, which are both devices to pay for a government service and purchasable items themselves, embody a crucial tension: is democracy defined by political agency or the freedom to buy? The changing images and uses of stamps reveal how governmental authorities have attempted to navigate between public service and businesslike efficiency, belonging and exclusion, citizenship and consumerism. Stamps are vehicles for state messaging, and what they depict is tied up with broader questions of what it means to be American. Goldblatt and Handler combine historical, sociological, and iconographic analysis of a vast quantity of stamps with anthropological exploration of how postal customers and stamp collectors behave. At the crossroads of several disciplines, this book casts the symbolic and material meanings of stamps in a wholly new light.

Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs

Author : Jerry Prout
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501756907
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs written by Jerry Prout and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol. Though a financial panic and the resulting widespread business failures caused millions of Americans to be without work at the time, the word unemployment was rarely used and generally misunderstood. In an era that worshipped the self-reliant individual who triumphed in a laissez-faire market, the out-of-work "tramp" was disparaged as weak or flawed, and undeserving of assistance. Private charities were unable to meet the needs of the jobless, and only a few communities experimented with public works programs. Despite these limitations, Coxey conceived a plan to put millions back to work building a nationwide system of roads and drew attention to his idea with the march to Washington. In Coxey's Crusade for Jobs, Jerry Prout recounts Coxey's story and adds depth and context by focusing on the reporters who were embedded in the march. Their fascinating depictions of life on the road occupied the headlines and front pages of America's newspapers for more than a month, turning the spectacle into a serialized drama. These accounts humanized the idea of unemployment and helped Americans realize that in a new industrial economy, unemployment was not going away and the unemployed deserved attention. This unique study will appeal to scholars and students interested in the Gilded Age and US and labor history.

Transatlantic Speculations

Author : Hannah Catherine Davies
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231546211
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Speculations written by Hannah Catherine Davies and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1873 was one of financial crisis. A boom in railway construction had spurred a bull market—but when the boom turned to bust, transatlantic panic quickly became a worldwide economic downturn. In Transatlantic Speculations, Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on the panics of 1873 and nineteenth-century globalization by exploring the ways in which contemporaries experienced a tumultuous period that profoundly challenged notions of economic and moral order. Considering the financial crises of 1873 from the vantage points of Berlin, New York, and Vienna, Davies maps what she calls the dual “transatlantic speculations” of the 1870s: the financial speculation that led to these panics as well as the interpretative speculations that sprouted in their wake. Drawing on a wide variety of sources—including investment manuals, credit reports, business correspondence, newspapers, and legal treatises—she analyzes how investors were prompted to put their money into faraway enterprises, how journalists and bankers created and spread financial information and disinformation, how her subjects made and experienced financial flows, and how responses ranged from policy reform to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories when these flows suddenly were interrupted. Davies goes beyond national frames of analysis to explore international economic entanglement, using the panics’ interconnectedness to shed light on contemporary notions of the world economy. Blending cultural, intellectual, and legal history, Transatlantic Speculations gives vital transnational and comparative perspective on a crucial moment for financial markets, globalization, and capitalism.

A People's Contest

Author : Phillip Shaw Paludan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A People's Contest written by Phillip Shaw Paludan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1. Learning war: Communities go to war ; Forging foreign and domestic weapons ; The ways of making war ; The dialogue of politics, 1861-1862 -- pt. 2. Making war: Congress and the capitalists ; Congress and the second "American system" ; Agricuklture and the benefits of war ; Inductrial workers and the costs of war ; The meanings of emancipation ; The dialogue of politics : loyalty and unity, 1863-1864 -- pt. 3. Finding war's meanings: World images of war ; Frankenstein and Everyman : Sherman, Grant, and modern war ; The scars of war ; The coming of the Lord : religion in the Civil War era -- Conclusion.

American Economic History

Author : James S. Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610696980
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book American Economic History written by James S. Olson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering figures, events, policies, and organizations, this comprehensive reference tool enhances readers' appreciation of the role economics has played in U.S. history since 1776. A study of the U.S. economy is important to understanding U.S. politics, society, and culture. To make that study easier, this dictionary offers concise essays on more than 1,200 economics-related topics. Entries cover a broad array of pivotal information on historical events, legislation, economic terms, labor unions, inventions, interest groups, elections, court cases, economic policies and philosophies, economic institutions, and global processes. Economics-focused biographies and company profiles are featured as sidebars, and the work also includes both a chronology of major events in U.S. economic history and a selective bibliography. Encompassing U.S. history since 1776 with an emphasis on recent decades, entries range from topics related to the early economic formation of the republic to those that explore economic aspects of information technology in the 21st century. The work is written to be clearly understood by upper-level high school students, but offers sufficient depth to appeal to undergraduates. In addition, the general public will be attracted by informative discussions of everything from clean energy to what keeps interest rates low.