Turning points in the US Civil War: A British perspective

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University; Claremont McKenna College
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700024712
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 216-231
• 关键词: expectations; confederacy

摘要

This article examines the. Confederate cotton bonds floated in Europe in March 1863 and traded on the London market. Over a 27 March 1863 to 17 June 1865 sample we isolate two, nonreversed, turning points that follow news of Confederate: defeat, at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July 1863 and the fall of Atlanta in September 1864. The analysis suggests that the turning points important to Southern interests differ from those identified for the Northern side by Kristen Willard, Timothy Guinnane, and Harvey Rosen.(1) It seems that war news did not always have symmetric effects on North and South.