Financing the Confederacy's War Effort

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Resources:

Escott, Paul D. After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1978). pp. 94-134.

Gallman, J. Matthew, The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1994). pp. 92-108.

Lerner, Eugene M., "Money, Wages, and Prices in the Confederacy, 1861-1865," Journal of Political Economy 63 (February 1955): pp. 20-40.

O'Brien, Patrick. The Economic Effects of the American Civil War (London: Macmillan Education Ltd, 1988).

Paludan, Phillip Shaw, "A People’s Contest": The Union and the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2nd ed., 1996). pp. 105-126; pp. 151-169; pp. 170-197.

Walton, Gary M. and Hugh Rockoff, History of the American Economy (New York: Dryden Press, 8th ed., 1997). pp. 304-307.


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Center for Technology and Teacher Education, University of Virginia. This module created by Brooke Graham of the University of Virginia.