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Title:
The gold standard at the turn of the twentieth century : rising powers, global money, and the age of Empire
Author:
Bryan, Steven, author.
ISBN:
9780231526333
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 273 pages).
Series:
Columbia studies in international and global history

Columbia studies in international and global history.
Abstract:
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.
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