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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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Description for The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire
Hardback. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; KCBM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 524.
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 unfettered liberal economics and one-world, one-market harmony. Outside of Europe, the gold standard became a tool for nationalists and protectionists primarily interested in growing domestic industry and imperial expansion. This overlooked trend, provocatively reassessed in Steven Bryan's well-documented history, contradicts our conception of the gold standard as a ... Read more
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 unfettered liberal economics and one-world, one-market harmony. Outside of Europe, the gold standard became a tool for nationalists and protectionists primarily interested in growing domestic industry and imperial expansion. This overlooked trend, provocatively reassessed in Steven Bryan's well-documented history, contradicts our conception of the gold standard as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231152525
SKU
V9780231152525
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About Steven Bryan
Steven Bryan is an attorney in Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. His next project is a comparative history of Japan in the 1920s and 1990s.
Reviews for The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire
A welcome addiction to the work focusing on experience outside the European core to the gold standard world.
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