Screen LibraryBonds of war : how Civil War financial agents sold the world on the Union /
"This fascinating work of financial and political history during the Civil War era shows how the marketing and sale of bonds crossed the Atlantic to Europe and beyond, helping ensure foreign countries' vested interest in the Union's success. Indeed, David K. Thomson demonstrates how E...
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| Published: |
The University of North Carolina Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chapel Hill, NC : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Civil War America
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| Summary: |
"This fascinating work of financial and political history during the Civil War era shows how the marketing and sale of bonds crossed the Atlantic to Europe and beyond, helping ensure foreign countries' vested interest in the Union's success. Indeed, David K. Thomson demonstrates how Europe, and ultimately all corners of the globe, grew deeply interdependent on American finance during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the American Civil War"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 268 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-261) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781469666600 146966660X 9781469666617 1469666618 |
| Index Number: | HJ251 |
| CLC: |
K712.43-05 F817.126-09 |
| Call Number: | F817.126-09/T482 |
| Contents: | Freedom of debt: the lessons of government finance before the Civil War -- A thousand dollar breakfast: the limits of war financing by elites -- Patriotism and profit: Jay Cooke and the democratization of debt -- The sale of American stocks constitutes the chief business at the Bourse: foreign war finance -- Like a cord through the whole country: nationalizing the economy -- A permanent national debt is not an American institution: post-war debt. |