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Debtor diplomacy : finance and American foreign relations in the Civil War era, 1837-1873 / / Jay Sexton



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Autore: Sexton Jay <1978-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Debtor diplomacy : finance and American foreign relations in the Civil War era, 1837-1873 / / Jay Sexton Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
Disciplina: 327.7304109034
Soggetto topico: Debts, External - United States - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Finance
United States Foreign economic relations Great Britain
Great Britain Foreign economic relations United States
United States Economic conditions 19th century
United States Foreign relations 19th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Finance and Foreign Relations in the Mid-nineteenth Century; 1. The Baring Years, 1837-1861; 2. Union Finance and Diplomacy; 3. Confederate Finance and Diplomacy; 4. ''Were it not for our Debt,'' 1865-1873; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index;
Sommario/riassunto: The United States was a debtor nation in the mid-nineteenth century, with half of its debt held overseas. The need to obtain foreign capital greatly influenced American foreign policy, principally relations with Britain. The intersection of finance and diplomacy was particularly evident during the Civil War when both the North and South integrated attempts to procure loans from European banks into their larger international strategies. Drawing on the unused archives of London banks and the papers of statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic, this work explores a central theme of mid-nineteenth-century
Titolo autorizzato: Debtor diplomacy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-021258-6
0-19-151567-1
1-4294-7094-1
1-280-75856-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813890503321
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Serie: Oxford historical monographs.