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

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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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]
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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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