Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era 1837-1873

by Jay Sexton

Book Overview

The United States was a debtor nation in the mid-nineteenth century, with half of its national debt held overseas. Lacking the resources to develop the nation and to fund the wars necessary to expand and then preserve it, the United States looked across the Atlantic for investment capital. The need to obtain foreign capital greatly influenced American foreign policy, principally relations with Britain. The intersection of finance and diplomacy was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190212586
• ISBN13: 9780190212582
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.5"