Bonds of War
How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife? This was the question that loomed before the Philadelphia financial house of Jay Cooke & Company,&8239;entrusted&8239;by the US government with an unprecedented sale of bonds to finance the Union war effort in the early days of the American Civil War.&8239;How the government and its agents marketed these bonds revealed a version of the war the public was willing to buy and buy into, based not just in the full faith and credit of the United States but also in the success of its armies and its long-term vision for open markets. From Main…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4696-6660-0
- EAN: 9781469666600
- Produktnummer: 37544588
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 290 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.1 cm 657 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 657
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