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A Storm of Cheap Goods: New American Commodities and the Panic of 1873

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2011

Scott Reynolds Nelson
Scott Reynolds Nelson*
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College of William and Mary
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srnels@wm.edu
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Forum: Boom and Bust
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 447 - 453
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2011

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3 The comments below draw upon my essay, “The Real Great Depression,” first published, without footnotes, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 1, 2008.

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