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Financing Sovereignty
- The Poyais Scandal in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Engelsk
Bogcover for Financing Sovereignty af Damian Clavel, 9781503643215
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Engelsk
Sider:
292
ISBN-13:
9781503643215
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1503643212
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Udg. Dato:
12 aug 2025
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 29,5 x 2,6
Oplagsdato:
12 aug 2025
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Financing Sovereignty

- The Poyais Scandal in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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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 quickly accused of by the press and public opinion at the time. From then on, MacGregor has embodied the figure of the swindler par excellence, the con artist behind the most audacious financial fraud in history. In Damian Clavel's deeply researched retelling of the Poyais story, MacGregor is less an unscrupulous adventurer aiming to defraud English investors than a luckless intermediary between Indigenous Miskitu elites and British financiers. From the coasts of Moskitia to the trading floors of London, Clavel traces the genesis, development, and downfall of the Poyais project, detailing how these events were the outcome of a failed attempt to finance the making of a new country in Central America. A microhistory set against the backdrop of global history, Financing Sovereignty offers a new lens through which to view the political, economic, legal, and social dynamics of the nineteenth-century revolutionary, financial, and imperial transformations that took place across the Atlantic.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
292
ISBN-13:
9781503643215
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1503643212
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 aug 2025
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 29,5 x 2,6
Oplagsdato:
12 aug 2025
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