Recommended Reading
General
Albion, Robert G. The Rise of New York Port: 18151860. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939.
Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Carosso, Vincent P. Investment Banking in America: A History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Cassis, Youssef. Capitals of Capital: The Rise and Fall of International Financial Centres, 1780–2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Cleveland, Harold van B. and Thomas F. Huertas. Citibank, 18121970. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Fraser, Steve. Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957.
Hubbard, J.T.W. For Each, the Strength of All: A History of Banking in the State of New York. New York: New York University Press, 1995.
Hyman, Louis. Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear and Intrigue in Gotham. New York: Basic Books, 2012.
Myers, Margaret G. The New York Money Market. Volume I: Origins and Development. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931.
Ratner, Sidney, James H. Soltow, and Richard Sylla. The Evolution of the American Economy: Growth, Welfare, and Decision Making. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan, 1993.
Tomasko, Mark D. Security for the World: Two Hundred Years of American Bank Note Company. New York: Museum of American Financial History, 1995.
Founding Banks and Bankers
[Barker, Jacob.] Incidents in the Life of Jacob Barker, of New Orleans, Louisiana; with Historical Facts, His Financial Transactions with the Government, and His Course on Important Political Questions, from 1800 to 1855. Washington, DC: 1855.
Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin, 2004.
Domett, Henry W. A History of the Bank of New York, 17841884: Compiled from Official Records and Other Sources at the Request of the Directors. New York: 1884.
Murphy, Brian Phillips. “‘A very convenient instrument’: The Manhattan Company, Aaron Burr, and the Election of 1800.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, LXV, no. 2 (April 2008): 233–266.
Nevins, Allan. History of the Bank of New York and Trust Company, 1784 to 1934. New York: Bank of New York and Trust Company, 1934.
Olmstead, Alan L. New York City Mutual Savings Banks, 18191861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976.
Sylla, Richard. “Forgotten Men of Money: Private Bankers in Early U.S. History.” Journal of Economic History 36 (March 1976): 173–188.
Wright, Robert E. Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750–1800. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
——. The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Banking in the Jacksonian Era
Gatell, Frank Otto. “Sober Second Thoughts on Van Buren, the Albany Regency, and the Wall Street Conspiracy.” Journal of American History 53, no. 1 (June 1966): 19–40.
Haeger, John Denis. The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the Economic Development of the Old Northwest. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981.
Keyes, Emerson W. A History of Savings Banks in the State of New York, From their Inception in 1819, down to 1869. Albany: Argus Company, 1870.
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Bank War. New York: Norton, 1967.
Rousseau, Peter L. “Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic of 1837.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 7528. Cambridge, MA: February 2000.
Sharp, James Roger. The Jacksonians Versus the Banks: Politics in the States After the Panic of 1837. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Sklansky, Jeffrey. “William Leggett and the Melodrama of the Market.” In Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith, eds., Capitalism Takes Command: Essays on Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012, 199–222.
Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York: Norton, 2005.
Antebellum and Civil War-Era Banking
Anbinder, Tyler. “Moving Beyond ‘Rags to Riches’: New York’s Irish Famine Immigrants and Their Surprising Savings Accounts.” The Journal of American History (December 2012): 741–770.
Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Gibbons, James Sloan. The Banks of New-York, Their Dealers, The Clearing-House, and the Panic of 1857. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859.
Gilbert, Abby L. “The Comptroller of the Currency and the Freedman’s Savings Bank.” The Journal of Negro History 57, no. 2 (April 1972): 125–143.
Gische, David M. “The New York City Banks and the Development of the National Banking System, 1860–1870.” American Journal of Legal History 23 (1979): 21–67.
Hammond, Bray. Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970.
Hodas, Daniel. The Business Career of Moses Taylor: Merchant, Finance Capitalist, and Industrialist. New York: New York University Press, 1976.
Katz, Irving. August Belmont: A Political Biography. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.
Mihm, Stephen. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxon. Jay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War. Volume One. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1907.
Osthaus, Carl R. Freedmen, Philanthropy, and Fraud: A History of the Freedman’s Savings Bank. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976.
Gilded Age Banking
Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Fleming, Ann. “The Borrower’s Tale: A History of Poor Debtors in Lochner Era New York City.” Law and History Review 30, no. 4 (November 2012): 1053–1098.
Hammack, David C. Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
James, John A. Money and Capital Markets in Postbellum America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Kessner, Thomas. Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America’s Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Kobrin, Rebecca. “Jewish Immigrant ‘Bankers,’ Financial Failure, and the Shifting Contours of American Commercial Banking, 1914–1918.” AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (Fall 2009).
Ott, Julia. When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Pak, Susie J. Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J. P. Morgan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Slack, Charles. Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America’s First Female Tycoon. New York: Ecco, 2004.
Strouse, Jean. Morgan: American Financier. New York: Random House, 1999.
Sylla, Richard. “Federal Policy, Banking Market Structure, and Capital Mobilization in the United States, 1863–1913.” The Journal of Economic History 29, no. 4 (December 1969): 657–686.
Wallach, Janet. The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age. New York: Random House Digital, 2012.
Reform Movements from Greenbackism to Progressivism
Ahamed, Liaquat. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. New York: Penguin, 2009.
Brandeis, Louis D. Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It. Edited with an introduction by Melvin I. Urofsky. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Chernow, Ron. The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family. New York: Random House, 1993.
Conway, J. North. King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2009.
Cowing, Cedric B. Populists, Plungers and Progressives: A Social History of Stock and Commodity Speculation, 1890–1936. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965.
Gage, Beverly. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
James, John A. Money and Capital Markets in Postbellum America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Johnson, David R. Illegal Tender: Counterfeiting and the Secret Service in Nineteenth-Century America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Livingston, James. Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Melanson, Philip and Peter Stevens. The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002.
Meltzer, Allan H. A History of the Federal Reserve: Volume 1, 1913–1951. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Ritter, Gretchen. Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865–1896. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Unger, Irwin. The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.
The Great Depression and World War II
Bayor, Ronald H. Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929–1941. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Vintage, 1974.
Friedman, Milton and Anna Jacobson Schwartz. A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash, 1929. New York: Mariner Books, 2009.
Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn. Or Does It Explode? Black Harlem in the Great Depression. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Kessner, Thomas. Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York. New York: Penguin, 1989.
Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Moody, J. Carroll and Gilbert C. Fite. The Credit Union Movement: Origins and Development 1850–1980. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
Pecora, Ferdinand. Wall Street Under Oath: The Story of Our Modern Money Changers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939.
Wilder, Craig Steven. A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Banking in the Postwar Era
Biondi, Martha. To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Vintage, 1974.
Nocera, Joseph. A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Rockefeller, David. Memoirs. New York: Random House, 2003.
Starr, Peter. Citibank: A Century in Asia. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2002.
Sylla, Richard. “United States Banks and Europe: Strategy and Attitudes.” In Stefano Battilossi and Youssef Cassis, eds., European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking Under Bretton Woods. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 53–73.
Wolters, Timothy. “‘Carry your credit in your pocket’: The Early History of the Credit Card at Bank of America and Chase Manhattan.” Enterprise and Society 1, no. 2 (2000): 315–354.
Zumello, Christine. “The ‘Everything Card’ and Consumer Credit in the United States in the 1960s.” Business History Review 85, no. 3 (2011): 551–575.
Zweig, Philip L. Wriston: Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy. New York: Crown, 1995.
Banking in the Late 20th Century
Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Auletta, Ken. The Streets Were Paved with Gold. New York: Random House, 1979.
Brigham, James R., Jr. and Alair Townsend. “The Fiscal Crisis.” In Michael Goodwin, ed., New York Comes Back: The Mayoralty of Edward I. Koch. New York: powerHouse Books in association with the Museum of the City of New York, 2005, 29–33.
Davis, Gerald F. Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-shaped America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Drennan, Matthew. “The Decline and Rise of the New York Economy.” In John H. Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells, eds., Dual City: Restructuring New York (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1991), 25–41.
Freeman, Joshua B. Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II. New York: The New Press, 2000.
Geisst, Charles R. Wall Street: A History, Updated Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Ho, Karen. Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
Jonnes, Jill. South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.
Lachman, Seymour P. and Robert Polner. The Man Who Saved New York: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
Madrick, Jeff. Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present. New York: Knopf, 2011.
Mollenkopf, John Hull. A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
——. “The Postindustrial Transformation of the Political Order in New York City.” In John Hull Mollenkopf, ed., Power, Culture, and Place: Essays on New York City. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988, 223–258.
Moody, Kim. From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City. New York: New Press, 2007.
O’Cleireacain, Carol. “The Private Economy and the Public Budget of New York City.” In Margaret E. Crahan and Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, eds., The City and the World: New York’s Global Future. New York: The Council on Foreign Relations, 1997, 22–38.
Patterson, Scott. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It. New York: Crown Business, 2010.
Rose, Joseph B. “Riding the Wave of Economic Development.” In Michael Goodwin, ed., New York Comes Back: The Mayoralty of Edward I. Koch. New York: powerHouse Books in association with the Museum of the City of New York, 2005, 84–89.
Vanatta, Sean Harris. “A Crisis of Credit: Jimmy Carter, Citibank, and the Political Economy of Consumer Credit, 1958–1985.” M.A. thesis, The University of Georgia, 2011.
Zweig, Philip L. Wriston: Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy. New York: Crown, 1995.
Banking in the Early 21st Century
Banksdaily.com. “The World’s 30 largest banks and banking groups by total assets (2012).” www.banksdaily.com/topbanks/World/2012.html (accessed September 24, 2013).
Bloomberg Markets & Bloomberg Rankings. “The World’s Best-Paid Investment Banks.” www.bloomberg.com, March 2, 2013 (accessed September 24, 2013).
CBS News. “Wall Street Doled $20B in Bonuses in 2009.” CBSNews.com, February 23, 2010 (accessed September 25, 2013).
“Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject: Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, Series Title: (Seas) Unemployment Rate.” United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 (accessed September 23, 2013).
DiNapoli, Thomas and Kenneth B. Bleiwas. Report 13–2011: Foreclosures in New York City, March 2011. New York: Office of the State Comptroller, New York City Public Information Office, 2011. www.osc.state.ny.us (accessed October 20, 2013).
Global Finance. “Global Finance Reveals the World’s 50 Biggest Banks 2012.” www.gfmag.com/tools/, August 27, 2012 (accessed September 24, 2013).
Greif, Mark, Dayna Tortorici, Kathleen French, Emma Janaskie, and Nick Werle, eds. The Trouble Is the Banks: Letters to Wall Street. New York: n+1 Foundation, 2012.
Lowenstein, Roger. The End of Wall Street. New York: Penguin, 2011.
McLean, Bethany and Joe Nocera. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2010.
Stone, Amey and Mike Brewster. King of Capital: Sandy Weill and the Making of Citigroup. New York: Wiley, 2002.
U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Carl Levin, and Tom A. Coburn. Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2011.
United States. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2011.
Wessel, David. In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic. New York: Crown Business, 2009.
Wylde, Kathryn. The Impact of the Economic Crisis on NYC Businesses. Speech to the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, August 6, 2009, posted September 14, 2009. wwwhuffingtonpost.com (accessed October 20, 2013).