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 LAW Johnny C. Burris Collection - 3rd Floor  E480 .G45 2010    AVAILABLE  
Author Geiger, Mark W.
Title Financial fraud and guerrilla violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 / Mark W. Geiger.
OCLC 449854171
ISBN 9780300151510
0300151519
Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
©2010
Description ix, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Other
Subject heading/s		 American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
1800-1899
LC Subject heading/s Fraud -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century.
Bank fraud -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century.
Conspiracies -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century.
Guerrillas -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century.
Violence -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century.
Regionalism -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century.
Other
Subject heading/s		 Bank fraud. (OCoLC)fst00826667
Conspiracies. (OCoLC)fst00875715
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Finance. (OCoLC)fst00924349
Fraud. (OCoLC)fst00933786
Guerrillas. (OCoLC)fst00948935
Regionalism. (OCoLC)fst01093204
Violence. (OCoLC)fst01167224
LC Subject heading/s United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Finance.
Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Finance.
Missouri -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Other
Subject heading/s		 Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
LC Subject heading/s Missouri -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
Other
Subject heading/s		 Missouri. (OCoLC)fst01204724
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other
Genre heading/s		 History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Financial conspiracy -- New banks -- New bankers -- Insider lending -- The Unionists regain control -- Guerrillas -- The transformation of regional identity -- War and the administrative state.
Summary "This highly original work explores the impact of a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the beginning of the American Civil War. In early 1861, pro-Confederate militia units formed throughout Missouri to defend the state's expected secession. To arm the volunteers, a group of senior state politicians and bankers secretly plotted to divert money from Missouri's banks and the state treasury. The scheme backfired and set off a chain of events that permanently altered the state's political economy. This episode contributes new data to several larger questions of Civil War history, including the causes of wartime guerrilla violence, postwar leadership persistence in the New South, changes to sectional boundaries, and how the hostile armies mobilized for war"--Jacket.
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