Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
… Sometimes the coincidences of history are uncanny. On Sunday, September 14, 2008, the … the conventional elements of late 19th century economic history, rather he contextualizes the use of gold with other … withdraw the paper that had flooded the economy during the Crimean War (1853-56). Colonies, such as India under the …