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The Panic of 1819

The First Great Depression

Andrew H. Browning

The Panic of 1819

450 pages

Published: April 2019

4 maps

ISBN: 9780826221834

Studies in Constitutional Democracy

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About This Book
The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real estate bubble, the Panic was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the United States, forming before the War of 1812, cresting with the land and cotton boom of 1818, and crashing just as the nation confronted the crisis over slavery in Missouri.

The Panic introduced Americans to the new phenomenon of boom and bust, changed the country's attitudes towards wealth and poverty, spurred the political movement that became Jacksonian Democracy, and helped create the sectional divide that would lead to the Civil War. Although it stands as one of the turning points of American history, few Americans today have heard of the Panic of 1819, with the result that we continue to ignore its lessons—and repeat its mistakes.
Authors and Editors
Andrew H. Browning was educated at Princeton and the University of Virginia. He has taught history in Washington, D.C., Honolulu, and Portland, Oregon.
 
Praise For This Book

"The title of Mr. Browning's fine and formidable history only hints at its scope. "The Panic of 1819" is, in fact, a political, social and financial history of the U.S., before, during and after America's first great depression."—Wall Street Journal

“A serious work on a vital topic.”—Daniel S. Dupre, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, author of Alabama’s Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South

"Andrew Browning has written a lively and thoroughly-researched account of economic conditions in the decades surrounding the Panic of 1819. As the first comprehensive, book-length consideration of the panic in over fifty years, it is rich and absolutely first rate."—William J. Hausman, Chancellor Professor of Economics, College of William & Mary, author of Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878-2007
“This is an excellent book on a neglected episode of American economic and financial history—the Panic of 1819—and also on American political and social history in general during, roughly, the first three decades of the nineteenth century.”—Richard Sylla, New York University, author of The American Capital Market, 1846–1914: A Study of the Effects of Public Policy on Economic Management
"The Panic of 1819 is a book that no historian of the early republic can afford to miss." —Missouri Historical Review

"Andrew H. Browning's book [The Panic of 1819] holds up a distant mirror, and allows us to see what happened to our politics in the aftermath of 1819." —Paul Conlin, MAAA, FSA, Senior Actuarial Director at Aetna
"This new book does a remarkable job in analyzing the complexities of trade, finance, politics, and business that led to [the Panic's] devastating impact." —Book Bit for WTBF-AM/FM in Troy, Alaska
Video

Andrew Browning talk at the Museum of American Finance, Pt. 1, The First Great Depression

Andrew Browning talk at the Museum of American Finance, Pt. 2, Dark Days for the World's Economy

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