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Samuel Rezneck, "Distress, Relief, and Discontent in the United States during the Depression of 1873-78," Journal of Political Economy 58, no. 6 (Dec. 1950): 494-512.

Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2001), 208-9.

O. V. Well, "The Depression of 1873-79," Agricultural History 11 (July 1937): 237-51.

Nicolas Barreyre, "The Politics of Economic Crises: The Case of 1873" (Paper given at SSHA Conference, Nov. 13, 2009).

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: Americas Unfinished Revolution, 1863-76 (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), 512-24.

For the Panic in perspective, Michael D. Bordo, "An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007-2008," Working Paper no. 14569, http://www.nber.org/papers/w14569, National Bureau of Economic Research, Dec. 2008.

also Frederic S. Mishkin, "Asymmetric Information and Financial Crises: A Historical Perspective" (1991), Working Paper no. 3400, esp. pp. 14-16, National Bureau of Economic Research.