Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri s Civil War, 1861 - 186

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Explores a financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. This 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! it reveals the nature of military mobilization in the antebellum United States.

Product details

• Authors: Mark W. Geiger
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2010
• EAN: 9780300151510
• ISBN: 978-0-300-15151-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Yale Series in Economic and Financial History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries