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Accounting for the fall of silver : hedging currency risk in long-distance trade with Asia, 1870-1913 / Michael Schiltz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schiltz, Michael, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Money--History--19th century.
- Money.
- Silver--History--19th century.
- Silver.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Michael Schiltz analyses the efforts by nineteenth century banking to mitigate the effects of the depreciation of silver. He shows that strategies for hedging exchange rate risk were created earlier than traditionally thought, and explores the relationship between Great-Britain and its colonies in Asia, and the rise of Japan as a financial power.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-263417-8
- 0-19-189740-X
- 0-19-263416-X
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