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The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into multiple wars, would eventually lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here, historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng shows that this moment in world history has been echoed many times, from the French Revolution to both World Wars, right up to the present day, when our own ...
27. Mai 2014 · One slight quibble is that the sub-title states that his is a "500 year history of empires, adventures and debt" but in reality 3/4 of the book is a history of the last century and how war and finance have traveled hand in hand throughout this period. To be sure the opening chapters put all this in an older historical context and there are ...
- Kwasi Kwarteng
27. Mai 2014 · One slight quibble is that the sub-title states that his is a "500 year history of empires, adventures and debt" but in reality 3/4 of the book is a history of the last century and how war and finance have traveled hand in hand throughout this period. To be sure the opening chapters put all this in an older historical context and there are ...
- Kwasi Kwarteng
And when people lost confidence in the promissory notes and paper currencies issued during wartime, governments again turned to gold.In this captivating historical study, Kwarteng exposes a pattern of war-waging and financial debt—bedmates like April and taxes that go back hundreds of years, from the French Revolution to the emergence of modern-day China. His evidence is as rich and colorful ...
1. Jan. 2014 · He has a PhD in History from Cambridge University and was elected as the Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in Surrey. His first book, Ghosts of Empire , was published to critical acclaim in 2011. www.kwart2010.com @kwasikwarteng
7. Mai 2015 · War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt. Paperback – 7 May 2015. In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into multiple wars, would eventually lead to the economic ruin ...
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27. Mai 2014 · War and Gold is a compelling successor to Liaquat Ahamed's delightful and invaluable The Lords of Finance, awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in history. Kwarteng delivers up a successor volume worthy of such a prize. It extends Ahamed's temporal framework by a factor of ten, to 500 years. Kwarteng, too, has compelling narrative virtuosity. His book is full of dramatic, charming, often wry ...
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