eprintid: 10071779 rev_number: 23 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/07/17/79 datestamp: 2019-04-08 10:22:21 lastmod: 2022-02-04 07:10:13 status_changed: 2019-09-16 07:40:50 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Sim, D title: Following the Money: Fenian Bonds, Diasporic Nationalism, and Distant Revolutions in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F28 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: This article tracks and analyses the history of bonds issued by the Fenian Brotherhood in the 1860s to argue that US Americans could take part in a marketplace in distant revolutions in the mid-nineteenth century. In this period, various, disparate nationalist groups issued bonds, suggesting a commonly understood method of generating funds, sustaining sentimental attachment, and projecting the authority of authentic nation-states. The Civil War-era United States was a particularly fertile environment for the issuance of such bonds because of its traditions of free banking, the ease with which bonds might be floated to a public increasingly au fait with their operation, and a broad rhetorical sympathy with the distant revolutions for which these bonds stood. The debt these bonds represented acted as a sentimental form of ‘special money’ and, for Irish-Americans, as for other immigrant communities in the United States, they allowed participation in a transnational movement without ever leaving their immediate neighbourhood. Tracing their issuance and circulation, then, allows us to write a material, sentimental and social history of everyday transnationalism and anti-imperialism in the mid-nineteenth century. For later generations, this sentimental quality could and did devolve into a more immediately financial form, and the article concludes by identifying the redemption of these bonds as a significant step in legitimating the new Irish republic to a US audience. date: 2020-05 date_type: published publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP) official_url: https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz036 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1645031 doi: 10.1093/pastj/gtz036 lyricists_name: Sim, David lyricists_id: DSIMX86 actors_name: Sim, David actors_id: DSIMX86 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Past and Present volume: 247 number: 1 pagerange: 77-112 issn: 0031-2746 citation: Sim, D; (2020) Following the Money: Fenian Bonds, Diasporic Nationalism, and Distant Revolutions in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States. Past and Present , 247 (1) pp. 77-112. 10.1093/pastj/gtz036 <https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj%2Fgtz036>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10071779/1/Following%20the%20Money%20-%20DS%20revisions%20in%20response%20to%20MH%20-%20Easter%20final%20clean%20version.pdf