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China and the End of Global Silver, 1873-1937 /

"For a very long time, silver was money, but in the late nineteenth century, much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard. China, however, remained the most populous country still using silver, although the country had no unified national currency; there was not one standard, but...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dean, Austin, 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Following the Money
  • A Primer on the Qing Dynasty Monetary System
  • Silver Begins Its Fall : The Global Circulations of the U.S. Trade Dollar, 1873-1887
  • Provincial Silver Coins and the Fragmenting Chinese Monetary System, 1887-1900
  • The Gold-Exchange Standard and Imperial Competition in China, 1901-1905
  • Money and Power on the World's Last "Silver Frontier" : The Currency Reform and Development Loan, 1910-1924
  • The Shanghai Mint and Establishing a Silver Standard in China, 1920-1933
  • The Fabi and the End of the Global Silver Era, 1933-1937.