Автор: Unger Irwin Название: Greenback Era ISBN: 0691622353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691622354 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 10296.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 aga
The world runs on the U.S. dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely—even after the global financial meltdown in 2008 revealed the potentially catastrophic cost of the dollar's hegemony. But how did the greenback achieve this planetary dominance a mere century and a half after President Lincoln issued the first currency backed only by the credit—and credibility—of the federal government?
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power—and the enormous risks—of the dollar's worldwide reign.
Описание: "Greenback" is the remarkable story of ordinary men cast into extraordinary circumstances fighting a war thousands of miles from home. The author, Lewis Scheider, was one of those men. From induction on March 18th, 1944, the narrative follows Lewis through training at army bases across the United States, including Fort Bragg, Fort Jackson, Fort Sill, Camp Forrest, Fort Leonard Wood, and Camp Laguna in the California desert near the Mexican border. At Fort Jackson, Lewis was assigned to the ammunition section of C-Battery, 45th Field Artillery Battalion (code-named Greenback), 8th Infantry Division. In this highly personal story, Lewis describes daily life of a GI preparing for and making his way through the challenges of war, illustrated by vignettes of the America he saw while hitchhiking from training camps across the country and the people and places he encountered in Northern Ireland and on patrols and short respites from the war in France, Luxembourg, and Germany. In addition to the narrative and photographs, "Greenback" includes excerpts of newsletters, Nazi propaganda, a map, and other memorabilia that add to the story. For members of the Greatest Generation who are still alive, their children and grandchildren, and anyone who wonders what a GIs life was like on the ground in Northern France and western Germany during World War 2, "Greenback" is a compelling and poignant contribution to the history of the war.
Historians have widely studied the late-nineteenth-century southern agrarian revolts led by such groups as the Farmers' Alliance and the People's (or Populist) Party. Much work has also been done on southern labor insurgencies of the same period, as kindled by the Knights of Labor and others. However, says Matthew Hild, historians have given only minimal consideration to the convergence of these movements.
Hild shows that the Populist (or People's) Party, the most important third party of the 1890s, established itself most solidly in Texas, Alabama, and, under the guise of the earlier Union Labor Party, Arkansas, where farmer-labor political coalitions from the 1870s to mid-1880s had laid the groundwork for populism's expansion. Third-party movements fared progressively worse in Georgia and North Carolina, where little such coalition building had occurred, and in places like Tennessee and South Carolina, where almost no history of farmer-labor solidarity existed.
Hild warns against drawing any direct correlations between a strong Populist presence in a given place and a background of farmer-laborer insurgency. Yet such a background could only help Populists and was a necessary precondition for the initially farmer-oriented Populist Party to attract significant labor support. Other studies have found a lack of labor support to be a major reason for the failure of Populism, but Hild demonstrates that the Populists failed despite significant labor support in many parts of the South. Even strong farmer-labor coalitions could not carry the Populists to power in a region in which racism and violent and fraudulent elections were, tragically, central features of politics.
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