Book(print)2022

Bonds of war: how Civil War financial agents sold the world on the Union

In: Civil War America

Thomson, David K.

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Abstract

Freedom of debt: the lessons of government finance before the Civil War -- A thousand dollar breakfast: the limits of war financing by elites -- Patriotism and profit: Jay Cooke and the democratization of debt -- The sale of American stocks constitutes the chief business at the Bourse: foreign war finance -- Like a cord through the whole country: nationalizing the economy -- A permanent national debt is not an American institution: post-war debt.

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