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Control # 1 96025089 //r97
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20220330102703.0
Fixed Data 8 960614s1997 enk b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 96025089 //r97
ISBN 20    $a0521561671
ISBN 20    $a0521653924 (pbk.)
Obsolete 39    $a98150$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dGCG
Geog. Area 43    $an-us---
LC Call 50 00 $aHG604$b.R577 1997
Dewey Class 82 00 $a332.4/2$220
ME:Pers Name 100 $aRitter, Gretchen.
Title 245 10 $aGoldbugs and greenbacks :$bthe antimonopoly tradition and the politics of finance in America /$cGretchen Ritter.
Imprint 260    $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1997.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axii, 303 p. ;$c24 cm.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Abstract 520    $a"Ritter (government, Univ. of Texas at Austin) reexamines the ideologies of the political debates over the US financial system from the end of the Civil War to the defeat of William Jennings Bryan in the election of 1896. By examining in detailed the relevant pamphlet literature, as well as contemporary newspapers and other publications, she presents the central arguments of what she calls the antimonopolists (farmer-labor parties) regarding economic and social reform. Her book is more successful in its descriptions and analysis of the nature of the antimonopolist arguments and their political impacts than in establishing what their achievement might have meant. This is an important study that raises significant questions about the role of the financial system in influencing political and economic change, explaining why these debates were significant in the past, as well as in the present. Goldbugs and Greenbacks is a major interpretation of the monetary debates of the late 19th century, and an important book for historians, economists, and political scientists concerned with developments in American society." -- Choice review
Local Note 590    $aRecommended as a Choice Outstanding Title
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aGreenbacks.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPaper money$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aGold standard$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCurrency question$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPopulism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1865-1900.