| Description |
1 online resource (363 pages) |
| Contents |
Boom, bust and beyond -- an introduction / Stefano Condorelli, Daniel Menning -- The rise and fall of a new credit system. Transnational financial experiments and domestic power struggles in Sweden, 1710-1720 / Peter Ericsson, Patrik Winton -- Chartering companies. A dialogue about the timeline and the actors of the pan-European 1720 stock euphoria / Stefano Condorelli, Daniel Menning -- Linen and lotteries: the anatomy of an English bubble company in Germany / Eve Rosenhaft -- The Mississippi bubble in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) / Malick W. Ghachem -- When first we practice to deceive: an alternative account of the South Sea bubble / Richard A. Kleer -- The bubble and the bail-out: the South Sea Company, Jacobitism, and public credit in early Hanoverian Britain / Abigail Swingen -- The economic effect of the South Sea bubble on the Baltic sea trade / Daniel Menning -- The long shadow of the South Sea bubble: memory, financial crisis, and the charitable corporation scandal of 1732 / Amy M. Froide -- "L'on entend tant dire pour et contre, que le plus habile doit agir au pure hasard." A case study on one investor's decision-making in the Mississippi bubble / Marlene Kessler -- Order from chaos springs: the bubbles of 1720 as a turning point in western conceptualizations of causality and order / Dror Wahrman -- "We have been ruined by whores": perceptions of female involvement in the South Sea scheme / Anne L. Murphy -- To think the unthinkable. Early financial theories (late 17th-18th century) / Jean-Yves Grenier -- From bubble to speculation -- eighteenth-century readings of the 1720s / Christine Zabel |
| Summary |
Few financial crises, historically speaking, have attracted such attention as the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719?20. The twin bubbles had major economic and political implications, sending shock waves through the whole of Europe; they astonished contemporaries, and, to a large extent, they still resonate today. This volume offers new readings of these events, drawing on fresh research and new evidence that challenge traditional interpretations. The chapters engage, in particular, with: the geographical frame of the 1719-20 bubbles their social, cultural, economic and political impact the ways in which contemporaries understood speculation the contributions and impact of a diverse array of participants popular and print memorialization of the events Overall, the volume helps to rewrite the history of the 1719?20 bubbles and to recontextualize their place within eighteenth-century history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-346) |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2020) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Modern -- General.
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Economic history
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045668
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Europe -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045671
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Europe -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045672
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Europe -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045753
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Europe -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045687
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Condorelli, Stefano, editor
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Menning, Daniel, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783110592139 |
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3110592134 |
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3110590719 |
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9783110590715 |
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