Tariffs, blockades, and inflation : the economics of the Civil War / Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornton, Mark.

Contributor:

Ekelund, Robert B. (Robert Burton), 1940-2023.

Series:

American crisis series ; no. 15.

The American crisis series ; no. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic aspects.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xxix, 124 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 2004.

Summary:

What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and

Contents:

Introduction: How Economics Illuminates the Civil War xiii

Chapter 1 Economic Interests and the Onset of the Civil War: The Tariff 1

Chapter 2 The Union Blockade and Southern Strategy 29

Chapter 3 Inflation, North and South 59

Chapter 4 Consequences of the War 81.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-116) and index.

ISBN:

0842029605

0842029613

OCLC:

52520527