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\"In the spring of 1837, people panicked as financial and economic uncertainty spread within and between New York, New Orleans and London. Although the period of panic would dramatically influence political, cultural and social history, those who panicked sought to erase from history their experiences of one of America's worst early financial crises. The Many Panics of 1837 reconstructs this period in order to make arguments about the national boundaries of history, the role of information in the economy, the personal and local nature of national and international events, the origins and dissemination of economic ideas, and most importantly, what actually happened in 1837. This riveting transatlantic cultural history, based on archival research on two continents, reveals how people transformed their experiences of financial crisis into the 'Panic of 1837', a single event that would serve as a turning point in American history and an early inspiration for business cycle theory\"-- Provided by publisher.

Although the Panic of 1819, the first nationwide economic catastrophe in U.S. history, was geographically, chronologically, and socially wide-reaching, the event has been largely overlooked by historians. In the twentieth century, there was only one monograph published on the subject. The recent boom in the history of capitalism has cultivated new interest in and publication on the panic. Inspired by a roundtable at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic commemorating the panic’s bicentennial, the historians writing for this forum offer a dozen new ways of thinking about the hard times of the 1810s and 1820s. Inclusive and expansive, the forum’s brief essays explode previous assumptions about the subject’s people, places, periodization, and political economy. Above all, they demonstrate that the Panic of 1819 was no mere panic; the nearly decade-long hard times were not a singular, sudden, or senseless response by frightened people to the results of benign policies or neutral market forces. This essay, as an introduction to the forum, reviews the historiography of the panic and, with the goal of encouraging still more research into the topic, argues for the renaming of this event.

(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022. After Hess's introduction, the book begins with Michael E. Wood's essay linking the antebellum importation of camels to proslavery agricultural improvers, dubious capitalists, and soon-to-be Confederate operatives. [...]Paula Tarankow's case study of a formerly enslaved showman and his talented horse returns the subjects of slavery, race, and the most iconic of Civil War animals to the center of the story in the first years of the twentieth century.

Lepler reviews Bankruptcy in an Industrial Society: A History of the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio by M. Susan Murnane.

“1837: Anatomy of a Panic” affirms that culture is, itself, an economic force. Peeling away the political and economic historiography surrounding the Panic of 1837, this dissertation examines primary sources from more than twenty archives in the United States and Great Britain to recover the experience of economic uncertainty between March and May of 1837. Business letters, newspapers, diaries, political cartoons, bills of exchange, novels, sermons, and legal records written during 1836-7 reveal the form and function of financial information during the American market revolution. Divided into seven chapters, the text is structured as a braided, chronological narrative that incorporates events in New York, New Orleans, and London into almost every chapter. Together, the chapters trace the people, paper, and institutions that spread financial information across the vast distances and political boundaries that separated local markets in the trans-Atlantic economy. The principle subjects of the dissertation are confidence brokers—people who traded financial information for power or profit. Private confidence brokers wrote letters to correspondents to judge the creditworthiness of paper currency while public confidence brokers circulated rumors in newspapers. As financiers awaited data to balance ledgers on both sides of the Atlantic, panicked people pursued legal, illegal, and even suicidal actions. Without a theory of the business cycle, contemporaries described their panic in terms of natural and divine disaster raising questions about human agency and victimhood. The attempts by commercial elites in each city to call upon financial and political institutions for an end to the panic reveal the effects of national systems of political economy on individuals. After banks throughout the United States had suspended specie payments, Americans reconsidered their experience of panic in national and international rather than local and personal terms establishing a historiographical tradition of emphasizing political causes for economic depression. This dissertation encourages economic historians to reconsider their application of twenty-first century methods to nineteenth-century crises, demonstrates the function of culture in capitalism, reconsiders the rise of nationalism and decline of the Atlantic World, and employs microhistorical methodology to provide a new form of historical synthesis.

Building on theories about the relationship between time and history by E. P. Thompson, Benedict Anderson, and Drew McCoy, Allen views the experience of time as more than a force of class domination, nationalization, or political economy. Looking at expansionist rhetoric and Monticello's architecture, Allen argues in the first chapter that fulfillment of America's \"manifest destiny\" required conquering both space and time because only the future could fulfill Thomas Jefferson's promise of an \"empire of liberty\" (p. 23).