Comparative analysis of financial panics across Berlin, New York, and Vienna for a global perspective
Examination of both financial speculation and interpretative speculation to understand economic and moral order
Use of diverse sources including investment manuals, credit reports, business correspondence, newspapers, and legal treatises
Exploration of international economic entanglement and cultural history of the period
Critique of policy reform and conspiracy theories to highlight the complexity of historical events
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Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on nineteenth-century globalization by exploring the ways in which the crises of 1873 challenged notions of economic and moral order. She maps the dual “transatlantic speculations”: the financial speculation that led to these panics as well as the interpretative speculations that sprouted in their