In this book, Cedric Cowing demonstrates that there were two Englands, one evangelistic and one rationalistic. In the Northwest of the British Isles was a society that was pastoral, westering, and otherworldly---in the Southeast was another, more established and mercantile. The settlers' British origins and the fact that these two religious types inhabited specific regions of New England influenced American history through the 1800s and beyond.
In this book, Cedric Cowing demonstrates that there were two Englands, one evangelistic and one rationalistic. In the Northwest of the British Isles w...
From market memoirs, newspapers, financial journals, and Congressional records, the author has woven a narrative describing the political, social, and economic adjustment of the American people to the speculative machinery that developed between 1868 and the New Deal. The book begins with the struggle of Populist legislators, representing stable farmers, to win a Congressional ban of future commodity trading. Congress failed to act, but anti-speculation, a characteristic of Populism, remained important. In the Progressive era, the stock market rivaled the commodity exchanges for attention....
From market memoirs, newspapers, financial journals, and Congressional records, the author has woven a narrative describing the political, social, ...
