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Financial fraud and guerrilla violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 / Mark W. Geiger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geiger, Mark W.
- Series:
- Yale series in economic and financial history.
- Yale series in economic and financial history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fraud--Missouri--History--19th century.
- Fraud.
- Bank fraud--Missouri--History--19th century.
- Bank fraud.
- Conspiracies--Missouri--History--19th century.
- Conspiracies.
- Guerrillas--Missouri--History--19th century.
- Guerrillas.
- Violence--Missouri--History--19th century.
- Violence.
- Regionalism--Missouri--History--19th century.
- Regionalism.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Finance.
- United States.
- Missouri--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Finance.
- Missouri.
- Missouri--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Missouri--Politics and government--1861-1865.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 306 p.) ) ill., maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Financial conspiracy
- New banks
- New bankers
- Insider lending
- The Unionists regain control
- Guerrillas
- The transformation of regional identity
- War and the administrative state.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-15152-7
- OCLC:
- 801194717
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