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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sexton, Jay, 1978-

Series:

Oxford historical monographs.

Oxford historical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debts, External--United States--History--19th century.

Debts, External.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Finance.

United States.

United States--Foreign economic relations--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--United States.

Great Britain.

United States--Economic conditions--19th century.

United States--Foreign relations--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-021258-6

0-19-151567-1

1-4294-7094-1

1-280-75856-2

OCLC:

437109240