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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 fealty not so much to Britain but to realpolitik concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2010.
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| Collection: | Columbia studies in international and global history.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The late-nineteenth-century world
- National and international money
- Nations and gold
- Gold and industrial developmentalism
- Strange bedfellows
- Law 3871 and the gold standard
- The Meiji gold standards
- Industry and the economic uses of gold
- Empire and the political uses of gold
- Epilogue : the rules of globalization.