Martin Horn (Ontario McMaster University)

J.P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first in-depth history of how J.P. Morgan responded to the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism. The book sheds new light on the Wall Street Crash, relations with Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Great Depression and New Deal, as well as the coming of World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781108498371
• ISBN-10: 110849837X
• Artikelnr.: 62580756

Autorenporträt

Martin Horn is Associate Dean Graduate Studies and Research in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University. His previous publications include Britain, France and the Financing of the First World War (2002) and with Dr. Talbot Imlay, The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany, (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. 'The Heart of Contemporary Capitalism': The Partners and their Bank
2. J.P. Morgan & Co. at home and abroad in the 1920s
3. The Young Plan, the Bank for International Settlements and the Wall Street Crash, 1929-30
4. 'The End of the World'? The 1931 Crises
5. 'Witchcraft': J.P. Morgan & Co., Hoover, and the Depression in the United States, 1930-1933
6. 'In the storm cellar': J.P. Morgan & Co. and the New Deal 1933-36
7. J.P. Morgan & Co., and the foreign policy of the New Deal: Germany, Italy, Japan and the Nye committee, 1933-37
8. The Coming of War and the End of the Partnership, 1937-40
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.