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