This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri’s guerrilla conflict, and for the state’s anomalous experience in Reconstruction. In the broader history of the war, the book reveals for the first time the nature of military mobilization in the antebellum United States.
Author(s): Mark W. Geiger
Series: Yale Series in Economic and Financial History
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 320
City: New Haven
Cover
Contents
Appendixes
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ONE: Financial Conspiracy
TWO: New Banks
THREE: New Bankers
FOUR: Insider Lending
FIVE: The Unionists Regain Control
SIX: Guerrillas
SEVEN: The Transformation of Regional Identity
EIGHT: War and the Administrative State
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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