Money Over Two Centuries: Selected Topics in British Monetary History

by Forrest Capie, Geoffrey E. Wood, Geoffrey Wood

This collection of essays by the eminent financial and monetary historians Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood examines and offers explanations of the parts played by money and the banking system in the British economy over the last two centuries.

Structured in three chronological parts, it covers: the period of the classical gold standard from 1870 until the First World War, and the associated key issues of the time; the troublesome interwar years,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019965512X
• ISBN13: 9780199655120
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"