Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 - Yale Series in Economic and Financial History

Mark W. Geiger

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Winner of the 2011 Tom Watson Brown Book Award

An award-winning exploration of a Civil War financial conspiracy in Missouri-and its reverberations today

In this original work, Mark W. Geiger explores the impact of a previously unknown financial conspiracy in Civil War-era Missouri, a sham-loan scheme that devastated the state's planter elite, caused a revolution in land ownership, and fueled a ferocious insurgency in the state.

Geiger's book-the first detailed study of the grassroots nature of financing for military mobilization in the American Civil War-shows how Missouri's ill-conceived plan has affected the political direction of the state to this day.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780300151510
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Pub date:	09 Jul 2010
DEWEY:	977.803
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	306
Weight:	667g
Height:	235mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	24mm