 | Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri''s Civil War, 1861-1865 Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Finance; Missouri -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Finance; Missouri -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Missouri -- Politics and government -- 1861–1865; Fraud -- Missouri -- History -- 19th ce; This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience in Reconstruction. In the broader history of the war, the book reveals for the first time the nature of military mobilization in the antebellum United States. Mark Geiger is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, and will also be a Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress for the 2011-12 academic year. |
