America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Panic of 1837 by Alasdair Roberts

America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Panic of 1837

Alasdair Roberts

264 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative medium-paced
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For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washingt...

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