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  title info:
    title: War and gold
    sub title: a 500-year history of empires, adventures, and debt
  name:
    name part: Kwarteng, Kwasi.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 424 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "The world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spain promoted gold and silver exploration in the New World with ruthless urgency. But, the great influx of wealth brought home by plundering conquistadors couldn' t compensate for the Spanish government' s extraordinary military spending, which would eventually bankrupt the country multiple times over and lead to the demise of the great empire. Gold became synonymous with financial dependability, and following the devastating chaos of World War I, the gold standard came to express the order of the free market system. Warfare in pursuit of wealth required borrowing - a quickly compulsive dependency for many governments. And when people lost confidence in the promissory notes and paper currencies issued during wartime, governments again turned to gold. In this captivating historical study, Kwarteng exposes a pattern of war-waging and financial debt - bedmates like April and taxes that go back hundreds of years, from the French Revolution to the emergence of modern-day China. His evidence is as rich and colorful as it is sweeping. And it starts and ends with gold."--book jacket.
  table of contents: Gold : the establishment of order, c. 1500-1914. Sweat of the sun ; Rival nations : England and France ; Revolutions ; Pillars of order ; Great republic ; London 1914 -- War : the consequences of Armageddon, 1914-1915. guns and shells ; victors and vanquished ; World crisis ; Bretton Woods -- The new dollar order, 1945-1973. Pax Americana ; Weary titans ; Japan Incorporated ; Imperial retreat -- Paper : the end of gold, 1973- . The impact of oil ; Thatcher and Reagan ; The creation of the Euro -- The rise of China ; Delusions of debt ; Crises and 'bailouts' -- Appendix. Value of gold stock to world GDP.
  note: Kwasi Kwarteng.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-410) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Gold
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Gold standard
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    geographic: Asia
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    geographic: Africa
    topic: History
  classification: HG289 .K93 2014
  classification: 332.422/2
  identifier: 9781586487683 (HC) :
  identifier: 158648768X (HC)
  identifier: 9781610391962 (EB)
  identifier: 2013952850
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 140519
    record change date: 20151206102421.0
    record identifier: in00003436513