Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (Twentieth Century Japan: the Emergence of a World Power)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780520244207
Subjects: Economic History; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History; Business / Economics / Finance; Money & Monetary Policy; History: World; Japan; History / General; Currency question; Asia - Japan; General; Gold standard; Money
First sentence: The road that led to the crisis of 1931 began in the late 1890s, when Japan's Asian empire, gold standard, and foreign borrowing got underway simultaneously.