Table of Contents

1. The Banking Situation in the United States, 1921–33.

Promotional Information

This is the first full-length study of five US banking panics of the Great Depression.

Reviews

'An important contribution to our understanding of the interactions between the banking system and the course of the Great Depression.' John H. Wood, Wake Forest University, H-Net Reviews 'This book substantially advances the literature on banks and money during the Great Depression.' David C. Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Journal of Economic History ' ... he assembles a commendable representation of the major incidents that will be a springboard for a great deal of future research ... a valuable addition to scholarly work on the causes and consequences of Depression-era bank failures and panics'. Economica 'Wicker's meticulous, in many respects exemplary, account is essential reading for the financial history of the Great Depression.' The History Journal