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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia Studies in International and Global HistoryPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 8 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231152525
  • 9780231526333
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.4 2220952 22
LOC classification:
  • HG1272 .B79 2010
  • HG1272 .B79 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part one. Gold and the Late Nineteenth-Century World -- 1. The Late Nineteenth-Century World -- 2. National and International Money -- 3. Nations and Gold -- Part two. Industry and Argentine Money -- 4. Gold and Industrial Developmentalism -- 5. Strange Bedfellows -- 6. Law 3871 and the Gold Standard -- Part three. The Meiji Gold Standard -- 7. The Meiji Gold Standards -- 8. Industry and the Economic Uses of Gold -- 9. Empire and the Political Uses of Gold -- Epilogue. The Rules of Globalization -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: 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 primarily interested in growing domestic industry and imperial expansion.This overlooked trend, provocatively reassessed in Steven Bryan's well-documented history, contradicts our conception of the gold standard as a British-based system infused with English ideas, interests, and institutions. In countries like Japan and Argentina, where nationalist concerns focused on infant-industry protection and the growth of military power, the gold standard enabled the expansion of trade and the goals of the age: industry and empire. Bryan argues that these countries looked less to Britain and more to North America and the rest of Europe for ideological models. Not only does this history challenge our idealistic notions of the prewar period, but it also reorients our understanding of the history that followed. Policymakers of the 1920s latched onto the idea that global prosperity before World War I was the result of a system dominated by English liberalism. Their attempt to reproduce this triumph helped bring about the global downturn, the Great Depression, and the collapse of the interwar world.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part one. Gold and the Late Nineteenth-Century World -- 1. The Late Nineteenth-Century World -- 2. National and International Money -- 3. Nations and Gold -- Part two. Industry and Argentine Money -- 4. Gold and Industrial Developmentalism -- 5. Strange Bedfellows -- 6. Law 3871 and the Gold Standard -- Part three. The Meiji Gold Standard -- 7. The Meiji Gold Standards -- 8. Industry and the Economic Uses of Gold -- 9. Empire and the Political Uses of Gold -- Epilogue. The Rules of Globalization -- Notes -- References -- Index

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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 primarily interested in growing domestic industry and imperial expansion.This overlooked trend, provocatively reassessed in Steven Bryan's well-documented history, contradicts our conception of the gold standard as a British-based system infused with English ideas, interests, and institutions. In countries like Japan and Argentina, where nationalist concerns focused on infant-industry protection and the growth of military power, the gold standard enabled the expansion of trade and the goals of the age: industry and empire. Bryan argues that these countries looked less to Britain and more to North America and the rest of Europe for ideological models. Not only does this history challenge our idealistic notions of the prewar period, but it also reorients our understanding of the history that followed. Policymakers of the 1920s latched onto the idea that global prosperity before World War I was the result of a system dominated by English liberalism. Their attempt to reproduce this triumph helped bring about the global downturn, the Great Depression, and the collapse of the interwar world.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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