Appeasing Bankers : : Financial Caution on the Road to War / / Jonathan Kirshner.
In Appeasing Bankers, Jonathan Kirshner shows that bankers dread war--an aversion rooted in pragmatism, not idealism. "Sound money, not war" is hardly a pacifist rallying cry. The financial world values economic stability above all else, and crises and war threaten that stability. States t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. What Does Finance Want?
- CHAPTER 2. Ourselves Alone: Financial Opposition to the Spanish-American War
- CHAPTER 3. Meet the New Boss: The Rise of the Military and the Defeat of Finance in Interwar Japan
- CHAPTER 4. Interwar France: Your Money or Your Life
- CHAPTER 5. "National Security Rests on the Dollar": The Early Cold War and Korea
- CHAPTER 6. Taking One for the Team? Finance and the Falklands War
- CHAPTER 7. Speculations: Finance, Power Politics, and Globalization
- Index