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L'or français coule en Belgique : appel aux représentants et aux négociants belges.
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Year: 1903 Publisher: Tournai : Rimbaut-Tricot,

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The anatomy of an international monetary regime : the classical gold standard, 1880-1914
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ISBN: 0195089901 1280534907 0195358236 9780195358230 019770994X Year: 1995 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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This historical analysis of the gold standard from 1880-1914 focuses on the origins and workings of the gold standard as an international system. It describes how the system functioned smoothly until the onset of World War I, when the foundations began to weaken.


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Geschiedenis van de algemene banken in Nederland 1860-1914
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ISBN: 9072122879 9055160784 9789055160785 9789072122872 Year: 1996 Volume: *1 Publisher: Amsterdam: Nederlands Instituut voor het bank- en effectenbedrijf,

Japanese banking: a history, 1859-1959
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ISBN: 0521496764 0521022339 0511586418 9780521496766 9780511586415 9780521022330 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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How did the Japanese achieve their unrivalled position in world banking? This book, first published in 1995, provides a full account in English of the banking industry in Japan for the century following the opening of the country to the outside world in 1859. Professor Tamaki begins by considering the period of experimentation during the Meiji Restoration which resulted in the adoption of the Gold Standard in 1891. He then offers a detailed examination of the highly profitable years up to the end of the First World War and of the subsequent crisis which was hastened by the earthquake that devastated Tokyo and Yokohama in 1923 and sealed by the financial collapse of 1927. New light is thrown on the extraordinary role played by the banking industry during the period of military expansionism which culminated with defeat in the Second World War. The book ends with an assessment of the post-war financial system which developed out of the Macarthur directives and the subsequent American 'democratisation' programme.

Money and liberty in modern Europe: a critique of historical understanding
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ISBN: 0521315093 0521304458 0511572557 0511870159 Year: 1987 Publisher: Cambridge

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The concept of class, along with its correlates -m class interest, class conflict, class consciousness - ramain indispensable tools of historical explanation. Yet research over the last twenty-five years, especially on the histories of England, France, and Germany, has revealed an increasingly poor fit between these concepts and the reality they purport to explain. Some historians have reacted by rejecting class; others have proposed bold revisions in our understanding of it that enable it to encompass new research findings. This study does neither. Instead, building on interpretive method Professor Reddy proposes to replace class with an alternative concept that seeks to capture from a new angle the fundamental relations of exchange and authority that have shaped social life in modern Europe.


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America's first great depression : economic crisis and political disorder after the panic of 1837
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ISBN: 9780801478864 9780801450334 9780801464676 0801464676 9780801464201 080146420X 0801450330 1322500533 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

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For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed with political and social unrest. In America's First Great Depression, Alasdair Roberts describes how the United States dealt with the economic and political crisis that followed the Panic of 1837.As Roberts shows, the two decades that preceded the Panic had marked a democratic surge in the United States. However, the nation's commitment to democracy was tested severely during this crisis. Foreign lenders questioned whether American politicians could make the unpopular decisions needed on spending and taxing. State and local officials struggled to put down riots and rebellion. A few wondered whether this was the end of America's democratic experiment. Roberts explains how the country's woes were complicated by its dependence on foreign trade and investment, particularly with Britain. Aware of the contemporary relevance of this story, Roberts examines how the country responded to the political and cultural aftershocks of 1837, transforming its political institutions to strike a new balance between liberty and social order, and uneasily coming to terms with its place in the global economy.

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