England's Cross of Gold

by James Ashley Morrison and James A. Morrison II

In England's Cross of Gold, James Ashley Morrison challenges the conventional view that the UK's ruinous return to gold in 1925 was inevitable. Instead, he offers a new perspective on the struggles among elites in London to define and redefine the gold standard--from the first discussions during the Great War; through the titanic ideological clash between Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes; to the final, ill-fated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150175842X
• ISBN13: 9781501758423
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up