The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century : : Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire /

The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century : : Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire / / Steven Bryan.

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By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the years before World War I were not a time of u...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Bryan, Steven,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part one. Gold and the Late Nineteenth-Century World
  • 1. The Late Nineteenth-Century World
  • 2. National and International Money
  • 3. Nations and Gold
  • Part two. Industry and Argentine Money
  • 4. Gold and Industrial Developmentalism
  • 5. Strange Bedfellows
  • 6. Law 3871 and the Gold Standard
  • Part three. The Meiji Gold Standard
  • 7. The Meiji Gold Standards
  • 8. Industry and the Economic Uses of Gold
  • 9. Empire and the Political Uses of Gold
  • Epilogue. The Rules of Globalization
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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