Confederate Finance, first published in 1954, looks at the measures taken by the Confederacy to stabilize its currency and offer a basis for foreign exchange. B

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

“Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired

An examination of foreign capital's role in the American Civil War.

This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. It interweaves