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The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century : Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2010]
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| Colección: | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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