War and Gold
Subtitle: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781408848159
Subjects: Gold, history; Gold standard; Great britain, biography; Great britain, colonies, asia; Great britain, colonies, africa; War, economic aspects; Imperialism
Description: An account of money through the modern age, revealing the oscillations between periods of international cooperation and free currency movement and analyzing the significant events that have defined financial history.