Turning Points in the Civil War: Views from the Greenback Market

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1001-1018

  Willard, Kristen L ^a   Guinnane, Timothy W ^b   Rosen, Harvey S ^c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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