Palgrave MacMillan
British Imperialism and the Making of Colonial Currency Systems
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- Wadan Narsey
- Palgrave MacMillan
- Paperback
- 9781349716319
- 8.5 X 5.51 X 0.78 inches
- 1.05 pounds
- Business & Economics > Finance - General
- English
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Covering the colonial Empire (including West Indies, India, Singapore, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a detailed revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to slow its eventual decline after World War I. Official internal correspondence is used to show that Britain typically acted against the advice of colonial commercial interests, colonial governments, and even officials in the Colonial Office, in order to replace international currencies (including gold and sterling itself), with localised silver currencies. The local currencies were backed by gold and sterling reserves in London, under the total control of the British Treasury and the Bank of England. In the process liquidity was provided to the London money market, and cheap finance to the British Government. This book provides a new perspective on theories of imperialism, colonial money and colonial underdevelopment, with possible geostrategic historical lessons for the US dollar and emerging global currencies such as Chinese renminbi and the Euro.
British Imperialism and the Making of Colonial Currency Systems
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Dr Wadan Narsey is a an independent economist and writer and also a former professor of economics at the University of the South Pacific.
He has also been a regular columnist for the Fiji Times, Pacific Scoop and the Pacific Media Centre, a former Fiji parliamentarian, and a prolific commentator on the key economic, social and political issues facing Fiji and the Pacific.
He is currently visiting adjunct professor at the Cairns Institute and also at the James Cook University, Queensland.
His articles voice his independent opinions.
Source: Pacific Media Center
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