Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union

Author/Contributor(s):	Thomson, David K
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	04/12/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"This fascinating work of financial and political history during the Civil War era shows how the marketing and sale of bonds crossed the Atlantic to Europe and beyond, helping ensure foreign countries' vested interest in the Union's success. Indeed, David K. Thomson demonstrates how Europe, and ultimately all corners of the globe, grew deeply interdependent on American finance during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the American Civil War"--