1. What do you see as the socio-political impact of the "Panic
... struggles over remedial proposals took their place in the context of nineteenth century struggles over monetary and debt relief proposals. Many historians orient their discussion of such struggles in America along class or sectional lines. The image is often conjured up of poor western farmer-debtors favoring inflation, battling rich eastern merchant-creditors favoring sound money. The results of this study cast strong doubt on this common ... ideal-type. In the widespread monetary struggles during the depression of 1819-21, at least, the battle of inflation vs. hard money cut sharply a...
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