Financing Sovereignty: The Poyais Scandal in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503643215ISBN-10:1503643212UPC:9781503643215Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Modern, Latin America, Economic HistoryBook Topic:19th Century, Central AmericaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCHKBT3A22
Financing Sovereignty: The Poyais Scandal in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums on the City of London's burgeoning South American sovereign debt market by selling bonds of the State of Poyais. The only problem-Poyais did not exist. At least, that is what MacGregor was...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503643215ISBN-10:1503643212UPC:9781503643215Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Modern, Latin America, Economic HistoryBook Topic:19th Century, Central AmericaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCHKBT3A22
Damian Clavel is an SNSF Ambizione Fellow at the University of Zurich.
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