| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) |
| Series |
Columbia studies in international and global history |
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Columbia studies in international and global history.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gold standard -- Japan -- History
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Gold standard -- Argentina -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Money & Monetary Policy.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Gold standard
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Argentina
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009046546 |
| ISBN |
9780231526333 |
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0231526334 |
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