History of Financial Disasters, 1763-1995

'Many of the historical documents, which include letters, newspaper reports and articles, scholarly papers, government reports, excerpts from books, and various kinds of speeches, would be difficult to locate if not for these volumes ... Recommended' CHOICE 'These volumes are worth their rather daunting price...[they] remind us that globalisation is nothing new.' CNBC European Business

• Volume 1: 1763-1840s * The European Financial Crisis of 1763 * The European Crisis of 1772-3 * The Assignat Inflation during the French Revolution, 1789-97 * The Crisis of The Second Bank of the United States, 1818-19 * The London Crisis of 1825 * The Panic in the US of 1837 * Railway Mania in the 1840s Contemporary sources (selection): Letter by R Wolters to Lord Liverpool (1763) (British Library Manuscript transcription); Memoirs of William Forbes (1803 [1859]); Correspondence of the Earl of Chatham (William Pitt the Elder) (1772-3); Louis Sebastien Mercier, New Picture of Paris (1800); Francois d'Ivernois, A Cursory View of the Assignats (1795); A Friendly Monitor, A Brief Review of the ... Bank of the United States (1819); Anti-Bullionist, Inquiry into the Causes of the Present Commercial Embarrassments in the United States (1820); [Benjamin Disraeli] An Inquiry into the Plans, Progress, and Policy of the American Mining Companies (1825); Henry English, A Complete View of the Joint Stock Companies (1827); A Citizen of Massachusetts, The Times: or, The Pressure and its Causes Examined. An Address to the People (1837); James Wilson, Capital, Currency and Banking (1847); Arthur Smith, The Bubble of the Age (1848) (excerpts) Retrospective analysis: texts by Frank C Spooner, Charles Wilson, Murray Rothbard and Larry Neal Volume 2: 1850-1925 * The Ohio Life Crisis of 1857 * Overend & Gurney, 1867-9 * New York's Black Friday of 1869 * The Vienna Crash of 1873 * The Crisis of 1907 that spawned the Federal Reserve Bank * The German Hyperinflation of the 1920s Contemporary sources (selection): Samuel H Walley, The Financial Revulsion of 1857 (1858); Robert Baxter, The Panic of 1866 (1866); Anon, The Profits of Panics, Showing how Financial Storms arise...(1866); William F Finalson, A Report of the Case of the Queen v Gurney and Others (1870); Henry Adams, 'The New York Gold Conspiracy' (1870 [1871]); Alfred Russel Wallace, Bad Times (1885); Edwin Seligman, The Crisis of 1907 (1908); David Lloyd George, Is it Peace? (1923); Lord d'Abernon, An Ambassador of Peace ([1923] 1929); Transcribed Unpublished Documents from the Bank of England Archives (1922-4) Retrospective analysis: texts by Charles F Dunbar, Clement Juglar and John Moody Volume 3: 1929-1995 * The New York Stock Exchange Crash of 1929 * The European Collapse and World Depression of 1931 * The Devaluation of Sterling in 1967 * The US Stock Market Crash of 1987 *'Black Wednesday', 1992 * The Mexican Peso Crisis, 1994 Contemporary sources (selection): Ivan Wright, 'Loans to Brokers and Dealers for Account of Others' (1929); Articles from the New York Times (1929); M Charles Rist, 'The International Consequences of the Present Distribution of Gold Holdings' (1931); Transcribed Unpublished Documents from the Public Record Office: Admiralty and Prime Minister's Office Records (1931); Transcribed unpublished Documents from the Public Record Office: Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Records (1967); President Ronald Reagan, 'Informal Exchange with Reporters' (1987); The President's Task Force on Market Mechanisms [Brady Commission] (1988); 'Should Sterling Rejoin, and if so when?', UK Treasury Document (1992); 'Britain and the Exchange Rate Mechanism', Chancellor's Speech to the European Policy Forum, Treasury Papers (1993); Letter to Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico, from Subcommandante Insurgente Marcos, Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) (1994); Riordan Roett, 'Mexico-Political Update: Chase Manhattan's Emerging Markets Group Memo' (1995); Remarks by President Clinton at the Department of the Treasury on Mexican Loan Guarantees (1995); Press Briefing by Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin (1995) Retrospective analysis: texts by John Kenneth Galbraith, Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin