Battles for the Standard

Bimetallism and the Spread of the Gold Standard in the Nineteenth Century

Ted Wilson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-74193-5 (ISBN)

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This title was first published in 2000. This is a history of the monetary developments in the international economy of the 19th century. It reviews the monetary developments in the core economies of the period: Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and also India. Particular attention is given to the expansion of the gold standard in the context of the intense national and international debates about the role of precious metals and the author also examines the conflict between supporters of gold, silver and bimetallism, both in terms of competing financial and economic theories and in terms of the varying social and cultural backgrounds that informed them. The main thrust of the work is that the sheer plurality of ideas and contexts helped to ensure the eventual victory of the gold standard, despite the inherent superiority of bimetallic systems.

Contents: Gold, silver and money; Britain’s golden heritage; France, bimetallism and standardization; India and the silver rupee; The United States: gold and silver in the Gilded Age; The spread of the gold standard and the defeat of bimetallism; The great monetary debate and the decline of bimetallism; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-138-74193-0 / 1138741930
ISBN-13	978-1-138-74193-5 / 9781138741935
Zustand	Neuware