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Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)
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ISBN: 0300151519
Author: Geiger, Mark W.
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Winner of the 2011 Tom Watson Brown Book AwardAn award-winning exploration of a Civil War financial conspiracy in Missouri-and its reverberations todayIn 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 states planter elite, caused a revolution in land ownership, and fueled a ferocious insurgency in the state.Geigers book-the first detailed study of the grassroots nature of financing for military mobilization in the American Civil War-shows how Missouris ill-conceived plan has affected the political direction of the state to this day.
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Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)