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Hardcover The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire Book

ISBN: 0231152523

ISBN13: 9780231152525

The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire

(Part of the Columbia Studies in International and Global History Series)

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 unfettered liberal economics and one-world, one-market harmony. Outside of Europe, the gold standard became a tool for nationalists and protectionists...

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