LEADER 05150oam 2200721I 450 001 9910783644403321 005 20230617035112.0 010 $a1-134-47302-8 010 $a0-429-23133-4 010 $a1-134-47303-6 010 $a1-280-07154-0 010 $a9786610071548 010 $a0-203-41778-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203417782 035 $a(CKB)1000000000247435 035 $a(EBL)181612 035 $a(OCoLC)252921191 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001145746 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12490869 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001145746 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11123552 035 $a(PQKB)10796506 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000298719 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11236025 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000298719 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10364152 035 $a(PQKB)11106439 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC181612 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL181612 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10100361 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL7154 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000247435 100 $a20180331d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA history of monetary unions /$fJohn Chown 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (382 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge international studies in money and banking ;$v21 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-40686-2 311 $a0-415-27737-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; The economics of currency arrangements: the principles of monetary union; General introduction; The gold standard; Fixed versus floating exchange rates; Types of 'fixed' monetary arrangement; Monetary unions; Exchange control and currency reconstructions; Some early history; Monetary union in post-Napoleonic Europe: the key issue of bimetallism; The Napoleonic Wars and after: bimetallism; Monetary union in Germany, Italy and Switzerland; The Austro-Hungarian empire as a monetary union: history to 1914; The Latin Monetary Union 327 $aThe collapse of bimetallismThe United States in the nineteenth century; The silver countries, Russia and the sterling area pre-1914; The collapse of bimetallism in the Eastern silver countries: a 'monetary disunion'?; Japan and Korea; Latin America in the nineteenth century; Money in Russia before the Revolution; The British empire and the sterling area: an accidental monetary union?; The early twentieth century and the collapse of the gold standard: the triumph of fiat currencies; Introduction to the early twentieth century; The Great War and its aftermath; Germany and the great inflation 327 $aThe temporary return to gold and the Great DepressionMonetary chaos in the 1930s; The Russian Revolution and after; The monetary consequences of the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire; Austria after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire; Other former members of the Austro-Hungarian empire; Germany and Austria in the 1930s; Scandinavia and the Baltic states: the Nordic Monetary Union; Bretton Woods and its collapse: the postwar monetary order; Money after the Second World War: general introduction; Bretton Woods and the IMF; Postwar monetary reconstructions; The UK 1945 51 327 $aEurope 1945 58: bilateral to multilateral paymentsThe UK 1951 79; The collapse of Bretton Woods; The road to European Monetary Union; Early moves towards European Monetary Union; The reunification of Germany and the collapse of the EMS; European Monetary Union: 1988 99; European Monetary Union: policy issues; Parallel currency proposals; Exchange control; Money and the collapse of communism: some monetary disunions; The collapse of the Soviet Union; The end of the rouble zone; The twelve CIS countries following monetary disunion; The Baltic states from 1991: successful monetary reforms 327 $aThe break-up of YugoslaviaTransitional and other EU applicant countries; The break-up of the sterling area: the contrasting experience of the French territories and some recent proposed unions; The end of the sterling area; The Irish pound; The former French colonies: the CFA franc zone; Monetary unions in former colonies; Two monetary unions that didn't happen: US/Canada and ANZAC; Postwar Latin America and the Far East; Postwar Latin America; Hong Kong and the Far East post-1945; Notes; Index 330 $aIn this comprehensive historical overview, the author writes about Monetary Unions with admirable completeness. Written in a readable and enjoyable prose, A History of Monetary Unions combines historical analysis with present day context. 410 0$aRoutledge international studies in money and banking ;$v21. 606 $aMonetary unions$xHistory 615 0$aMonetary unions$xHistory. 676 $a332.4/566 700 $aChown$b John F.$f1929,$01465982 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783644403321 996 $aA history of monetary unions$93676238 997 $aUNINA