Transatlantic Speculations

Hannah Catherine Davies

Hannah Catherine Davies

Transatlantic Speculations

Globalization and the Panics of 1873

Columbia University Press | 2018

https://doi.org/10.7312/davi18556

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Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on nineteenth-century globalization by exploring the ways in which the crises of 1873 challenged notions of economic and moral order. She maps the dual “transatlantic speculations”: the financial speculation that led to these panics as well as the interpretative speculations that sprouted in their wake.

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Hannah Catherine Davies is assistant professor of modern history at the University of Zurich.

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Youssef Cassis, European University Institute:
What sense do financial actors make of speculation? This is ultimately the key to understanding financial crises. Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Hannah Catherine Davies’s penetrating study of the financial panics of 1873 offers much food for thought.

Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago:
This creative global history of the financial panics of 1873 is now surely the leading study of its subject. In tracing not only transnational capital flows, but also the meanings and interpretive frameworks employed to make sense of them, Davies has added a newfound sophistication and depth to the historical study of financial panics. This is global history and cultural history of economy practiced at its finest.

Peter Knight, University of Manchester:
Bringing economic history and cultural history into the same frame, Davies makes a compelling case for the wider significance of the panics of 1873 in the development of a global consciousness of finance.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
CONTENTS Free access PDF PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Free access PDF PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Free access PDF PDF	ix
CHAPTER 1. SETTING THE STAGE CHAPTER 1 SETTING THE STAGE Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
CHAPTER 2. THE VIRTUAL WORLD OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND THE MAKING OF A BUBBLE Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	25
CHAPTER 3. PREDICTING AND EXPERIENCING THE PANICS OF 1873 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	53
CHAPTER 4. FLOWS OF PAPER, FLOWS OF GOLD Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	79
CHAPTER 5. CAPITALISM, CONSPIRACY, CORRUPTION, AND THE MORAL ECONOMY OF A FINANCIAL CRISIS Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	99
CHAPTER 6. CRIMINALIZING PROMOTERS, PROTECTING SHAREHOLDERS Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	127
CONCLUSION Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	145
NOTES Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	153
BIBLIOGRAPHY Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	195
INDEX Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	219

Transatlantic Speculations

Globalization and the Panics of 1873

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