Financing sovereignty: the poyais scandal in the early nineteenth-century atlantic world
Auteur :
Clavel, Damian
Éditeur :
Stanford University Press
ISBN :
9781503643215
Date de publication :
12 août 2025
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.