Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/wtWH49 Lever of Empire The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan By: Mark Metzler Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520244207, 0520244206 eText ISBN: 9780520931794, 0520931793 Edition: 1st Pages: 396 Copyright year: 2006 Format: PDF Available from $ 85.00 USD SKU 9780520931794 This book, the first full account of Japan’s financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of liberalism in Japan in late 1931 and the global politics of money that were at the center of the crisis, Mark Metzler asks why successive Japanese governments from 1920 to 1931 carried out policies that deliberately induced deflation and depression. His search for answers stretches from Edo to London to the ragged borderlands of the Japanese empire and from the eighteenth century to the 1950s, integrating political and monetary analysis to shed light on the complex dynamics of money, empire, and global hegemony. His detailed and broad ranging account illuminates a range of issues including Japan’s involvement in the economic dynamics that shook interwar Europe, the character of U.S. isolationism, and the rise of fascism as an international phenomenon. Additional ISBNs 9786612357664, 9780520931794, 9781282357662, 6612357665, 0520931793, 1282357662
