Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Setting the Stage: Institutions and Cultures of Speculation in the 1860s and Early 1870s; 2. The Virtual World of Financial Information and the Making of a Bubble; 3. Predicting and Experiencing the Panics of 1873; 4. Flows of Paper, Flows of Gold: Theorizing the Panics; 5. Capitalism, Conspiracy, Corruption, and the Moral Economy of a Financial Crisis; 6. Criminalizing Promoters, Protecting Shareholders; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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
