Description
During the interwar period, J.P. Morgan was the most important bank in the world and at the crossroads of US politics, international relations and finance. In J.P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism, Martin Horn brings us the first in-depth history of how J.P. Morgan responded to the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism, shedding new light on the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the coming of World War II. Horn shows how J.P. Morgan & Co as a business responded to the 1929 Crash and the Depression, including its part in the New York Stock Exchange Crash, arguing that the Morgan partners misread the seriousness of the crash. He also offers new insights into the interactions of politics and finance, exploring J.P. Morgan's relationship with the Hoover administration and the bank's clash with Roosevelt over New Deal legislation.
Examines how J.P. Morgan, then the world's leading bank, responded to the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism.
About the Author
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).
Reviews
'Drawing on a comprehensive command of the archival record, this fine study places J. P. Morgan & Co. - from partnership to incorporation - firmly within the history of capitalism. All scholars of modern American and business history will benefit from this authoritative account of a pivotal firm's history.' Jason Scott Smith, author of A Concise History of the New Deal
'Numerous histories of the House of Morgan cover the years before 1914 when it was the pre-eminent American bank. Examining how the bank evolved to survive the Great Depression and federal regulation, Martin Horn's important new study is most welcome.' Eugene White, author of Conflict of Interest in the Financial Services Industry
'A detailed look at the complicated history of one the world's most influential financial institutions ... Recommended.' R. S. Hewett, Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9781108498371
Author Martin Horn
Format Hardback
Page Count 406
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 720g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm * 27mm
Examines how J.P. Morgan, then the world's leading bank, responded to the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism.
About the Author
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).
Reviews
'Drawing on a comprehensive command of the archival record, this fine study places J. P. Morgan & Co. - from partnership to incorporation - firmly within the history of capitalism. All scholars of modern American and business history will benefit from this authoritative account of a pivotal firm's history.' Jason Scott Smith, author of A Concise History of the New Deal
'Numerous histories of the House of Morgan cover the years before 1914 when it was the pre-eminent American bank. Examining how the bank evolved to survive the Great Depression and federal regulation, Martin Horn's important new study is most welcome.' Eugene White, author of Conflict of Interest in the Financial Services Industry
'A detailed look at the complicated history of one the world's most influential financial institutions ... Recommended.' R. S. Hewett, Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9781108498371
Author Martin Horn
Format Hardback
Page Count 406
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 720g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm * 27mm
