Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan Volume 17

by Mark Metzler

This book, the first full account of Japan's financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of liberalism in Japan in late 1931 and the global politics of money that were at the center of the crisis, Mark Metzler asks why successive Japanese governments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520244206
• ISBN13: 9780520244207
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"