The debt system : a history of sovereign debts and their repudiation / Éric Toussaint ; translation coordinated, revised, and refined by Snake Arbusto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toussaint, Eric, author.

Standardized Title:

Système dette. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Debts, Public--History.

Repudiation--History.

Debts, Public.

Repudiation.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 263 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019.

Contents:

1 How the South Paid for the North's Crises and for Its Own Subjugation p. 1

2 How Debt and Free Trade Subordinated Independent Latin America p. 11

3 In the Nineteenth Century, Mexico Proved That Debt Can Be Repudiated p. 27

4 Newly Independent Greece Had an Odious Debt Around Its Neck p. 51

5 Debt as a Means for Continued Domination over Greece p. 65

6 Debt as an Instrument of Colonial Conquest of Egypt p. 81

7 Debt; How France Appropriated Tunisia p. 91

8 Alexander Nahum Sack and Sovereign Debts p. 111

9 Odious Debt according to Sack and according to the CADTM p. 123

10 Debt Repudiations between 1830 and 1930 p. 135

11 Mexico's Victory against Its Creditors (1914-1942) p. 153

12 The Repudiation of Debt by the Soviets p. 165.

Notes:

Originally published in French as Le système dette : histoire des dettes souveraines et de leur répudiation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781608463091

1608463095

OCLC:

1080608475