Appeasing bankers
Subtitle: financial caution on the road to war
By: Jonathan Kirshner.
Series: Princeton studies in international history and politics
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691131443; 9780691134611
Subjects: War -- Economic aspects; Banks and banking -- History -- 20th century; Military history, Modern -- 20th century -- Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What does finance want?; title: Ourselves alone : financial opposition to the Spanish-American War; title: Meet the new boss : the rise of the military and the defeat of finance in interwar Japan; title: Interwar France : your money or your life; title: National security rests on the dollar : the early Cold War and Korea; title: Taking one for the team? finance and the Falklands War; title: Speculations : finance, power politics, and globalization.