Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War(American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era)

Series: American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era

What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of politics to interpret events of the Civil War.