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12 mag 2014 · The unparalleled calamity of the 1914-18 war burdened the UK with such massive debt that it was forced to leave the gold standard, yet gold remained the anchor of sound economies.
11 mag 2021 · War and gold : a five-hundred-year history of empires, adventures and debt. by. Kwarteng, Kwasi, author. Publication date. 2015. Publisher. London : Bloomsbury. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
Kwarteng reveals a pattern of war-waging, financial debt and fluctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped...
1 gen 2014 · Kwasi Kwarteng. Bloomsbury, Jan 1, 2014 - Biography & Autobiography - 424 pages. Eminent historian Kwasi Kwarteng takes a unique look at the financial world and its troubled history, from the...
- Kwasi Kwarteng
- Bloomsbury, 2014
- illustrated
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.
27 mag 2014 · War and Gold tells the story of government money from the time of Cortez and Pizarro working for Spain through the current economic struggles related to world banking, mortgage backed securities and overall government debt.
- Kwasi Kwarteng
Product details. About the contributors. Author. Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian pare… A searing study of how the Spanish conquistadors introduced conflict for the sake of wealth shows that money and battle remain inseparable ... Few stones are left unlifted in this study, the sub-title of which gives every clue as to its ambition.
