War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt
Autor Kwasi Kwartengen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mai 2015
'Enormously entertaining' - Sunday Times
'Exhaustive and convincingly argued' - Observer
'A complicated story well told, from which financial lessons emerge naturally' - Financial Times
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A unique look at the financial world and its troubled history, from the disaster that befell Spain in the sixteenth century to the 2008 global financial crisis
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 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 financial crisis saw many of our great nations slip into financial trouble. Kwarteng reveals a pattern of war-waging, financial debt and fluctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped the world as we know it, that between war and gold.
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'Searing ... Few stones are left unlifted in this study, the subtitle of which gives every clue as to its ambition' - Independent
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408831687
ISBN-10: 1408831686
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408831686
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
A searing study of how the Spanish conquistadors introduced conflict for the sake of wealth shows that money and battle remain inseparable ... Few stones are left unlifted in this study, the sub-title of which gives every clue as to its ambition
Here is a book that explores the financial cost of war, rather than the human ... Kwarteng is thorough and insightful, weaving a narrative that transports the reader convincingly through time and place
As befits a highly intelligent man, the author describes these complex issues in an eminently digestible way ... Has he foretold the next catastrophe?
A complicated story well told, from which financial lessons emerge naturally without Kwarteng finding it necessary to bludgeon the reader with his message
A former financial analyst with an impeccable academic track record ... Aggressively intellectual ... An exciting political thinker
A meaty, thoughtful and well-written book
Absorbing history of humankind's most enduring preoccupations - war and gold ... A fascinating, lucid and serious history of money, from the discovery of the wealth of the Americans to the present financial crisis
Enormously entertaining ... turns the evolution of money of the past 500 years into a rollicking narrative ... His book is so engagingly written that readers of all political persuasions should enjoy it
This exhaustive and convincingly argued history of money comes from an author whose day job is to sit in the House of Commons ... He certainly understands the forces and the mistakes that have led to that destabilisation
This 500-year study of how cash and gold have affected high politics makes for surprisingly compelling reading
Here is a book that explores the financial cost of war, rather than the human ... Kwarteng is thorough and insightful, weaving a narrative that transports the reader convincingly through time and place
As befits a highly intelligent man, the author describes these complex issues in an eminently digestible way ... Has he foretold the next catastrophe?
A complicated story well told, from which financial lessons emerge naturally without Kwarteng finding it necessary to bludgeon the reader with his message
A former financial analyst with an impeccable academic track record ... Aggressively intellectual ... An exciting political thinker
A meaty, thoughtful and well-written book
Absorbing history of humankind's most enduring preoccupations - war and gold ... A fascinating, lucid and serious history of money, from the discovery of the wealth of the Americans to the present financial crisis
Enormously entertaining ... turns the evolution of money of the past 500 years into a rollicking narrative ... His book is so engagingly written that readers of all political persuasions should enjoy it
This exhaustive and convincingly argued history of money comes from an author whose day job is to sit in the House of Commons ... He certainly understands the forces and the mistakes that have led to that destabilisation
This 500-year study of how cash and gold have affected high politics makes for surprisingly compelling reading
Notă biografică
Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents in 1975. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University, where he spent a year as a Kennedy Scholar. After completing a PhD in history at Cambridge University, he worked as a financial analyst in London. He is a Conservative member of Parliament and author of Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World. H lives in London, UK.