Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

Mark W. Geiger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2010
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-15151-0 (ISBN)

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Explores a financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. This 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, it reveals the nature of military mobilization in the antebellum United States.

Winner of the 2011 Tom Watson Brown Book Award

An award-winning exploration of a Civil War financial conspiracy in Missouri—and its reverberations today

In this original work, Mark W. Geiger explores the impact of a previously unknown financial conspiracy in Civil War–era Missouri, a sham-loan scheme that devastated the state’s planter elite, caused a revolution in land ownership, and fueled a ferocious insurgency in the state.

Geiger’s book—the first detailed study of the grassroots nature of financing for military mobilization in the American Civil War—shows how Missouri’s ill-conceived plan has affected the political direction of the state to this day.

Mark W. Geiger is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sydney and will also be a Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress for the 2011–12 academic year.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.7.2010
Reihe/Serie	Yale Series in Economic and Financial History
Zusatzinfo	36 scattered b-w
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-300-15151-9 / 0300151519
ISBN-13	978-0-300-15151-0 / 9780300151510
Zustand	Neuware