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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452768303321

Autore

Geiger Mark W

Titolo

Financial fraud and guerrilla violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 [[electronic resource] /] / Mark W. Geiger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-300-15152-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 306 p.) ) : ill., maps

Collana

Yale series in economic and financial history

Disciplina

977.8/03

Soggetti

Fraud - Missouri - History - 19th century

Bank fraud - Missouri - History - 19th century

Conspiracies - Missouri - History - 19th century

Guerrillas - Missouri - History - 19th century

Violence - Missouri - History - 19th century

Regionalism - Missouri - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Finance

Missouri History Civil War, 1861-1865 Finance

Missouri Economic conditions 19th century

Missouri Politics and government 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Financial conspiracy -- New banks -- New bankers -- Insider lending -- The Unionists regain control -- Guerrillas -- The transformation of regional identity -- War and the administrative state.

Sommario/riassunto

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.