TY - BOOK ID - 30665599 TI - Lever of empire PY - 2006 SN - 9786612357664 0520931793 1282357662 1598759302 0520244206 9780520931794 1423745477 9781423745471 9780520244207 9781598759303 9781282357662 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Money KW - Currency question KW - Gold standard KW - Monetary policy KW - Liberalism KW - History. KW - Inoue, Junnosuke, KW - Takahashi, Korekiyo, KW - Liberal egalitarianism KW - Fiat money KW - Free coinage KW - Monetary question KW - Scrip KW - 高橋是清, KW - 高橋是淸, KW - Inouye, Junnosuke, KW - 井上準之助, KW - 井上凖之助, KW - J4562 KW - J4560.80 KW - -Currency question KW - -Gold standard KW - Exchange standard, Gold KW - Gold exchange standard KW - Standard, Gold KW - Japan: Economy and industry -- finance -- money KW - Japan: Economy and industry -- finance -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century KW - Inoue, Junnosuke, 1869-1932 KW - Takahashi, Korekiyo, 1854-1936 KW - Liberty KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - Currency crises KW - Finance KW - Finance, Public KW - Legal tender KW - J2284.70 KW - J4300.70 KW - History KW - Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō KW - Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō KW - Japan KW - Inoue, Junnosuke KW - Takahashi, Korekiyo KW - Inoue, Junnosuke, -- 1869-1932.. KW - Takahashi, Korekiyo, -- 1854-1936.. KW - Money -- Japan -- History.. KW - Currency question -- Japan -- History.. KW - Gold standard -- History.. KW - Monetary policy -- Japan -- History.. KW - Liberalism -- Japan -- History. KW - Gaoqiao, Shiqing, KW - asian history. KW - business and finance. KW - deflation. KW - depression. KW - east asian history. KW - economic policy. KW - economics. KW - edo. KW - empire. KW - fascism. KW - financial history. KW - global politics. KW - gold and currency. KW - gold standard. KW - government policy. KW - history. KW - imperial japan. KW - imperial state. KW - imperialism. KW - japan. KW - japanese empire. KW - liberalism. KW - london. KW - modern japan. KW - money. KW - nonfiction. KW - political extremism. KW - politics. KW - us isolationism. KW - world war two. KW - ww2. KW - Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai (Japan) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30665599 AB - This book, the first full account of Japan's financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of liberalism in Japan in late 1931 and the global politics of money that were at the center of the crisis, Mark Metzler asks why successive Japanese governments from 1920 to 1931 carried out policies that deliberately induced deflation and depression. His search for answers stretches from Edo to London to the ragged borderlands of the Japanese empire and from the eighteenth century to the 1950's, integrating political and monetary analysis to shed light on the complex dynamics of money, empire, and global hegemony. His detailed and broad ranging account illuminates a range of issues including Japan's involvement in the economic dynamics that shook interwar Europe, the character of U.S. isolationism, and the rise of fascism as an international phenomenon. ER -