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" Democracy in desperation : "
Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten
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BL
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627043
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Steeples, Douglas W
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Democracy in desperation : : the depression of 1893 /\ Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten
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Westport, Conn :: Greenwood Press,, 1998
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Contributions in economics and economic history,; no. 199
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x, 261 p. ;; 24 cm
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0313279438 (alk. paper)
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: 9780313279430 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-233) and index
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| Abstract
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The Panic of 1893 and the depression it triggered mark one of the decisive crises in American history. Devastating broad sections of the country like a tidal wave, the depression forced the nation to change its way of life and altered the pattern and pace of national development ever after. The depression served as the setting for the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial society, exposed grave economic and social problems, sharply tested the country's resourcefulness, reshaped popular thought, and changed the direction of foreign policy. It was a crucible in which the elements of the modern United States were clarified and refined. Yet no study to date has examined the depression in its entirety
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This is the first book to treat these disparate matters in detail, and to trace and interpret the business contraction of the 1890s in the context of national economic, political, and social development
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Depressions-- 1893
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United States, Politics and government, 1893-1897
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United States, Economic conditions, 1865-1918
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JK231.S74 1998
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Whitten, David O
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