British Imperialism and the Making of Colonial Currency Systems

by Wadan Narsey

Book Overview

Based on archival research covering more than two centuries and most former British colonies (West Indies, India, Singapore, Malaya, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to slow its eventual decline after World War II.

Britain forcibly replaced international currencies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349716316
• ISBN13: 9781349716319
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"