Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It

by H.W. Brands

The world runs on the U.S. dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely--even after the global financial meltdown in 2008 revealed the potentially catastrophic cost of the dollar's hegemony. But how did the greenback achieve this planetary dominance a mere century and a half after President Lincoln issued the first currency backed only by the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292723415
• ISBN13: 9780292723412
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.1"