Book Launch: Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

Tags: Bob Carr, Mark Geiger

US Studies Centre postdoctoral fellow Mark W. Geiger's first book is Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865. The book was launched at an event at the University of Sydney hosted by former NSW premier and current member of the Centre's Board of Directors Bob Carr. Geiger's dissertation, on which the book is based, received Columbia University's Nevins Prize, awarded by the Economic History Association.

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