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

• Autore: Sexton Jay <1978->
• 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
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford historical monographs.