This title was first published in 2000. This is a history of the monetary developments in the international economy of the 19th century. It reviews the monetary

Originally published in 1936, this book discusses the post-War reconstruction of the monetary system. It examines the American use of silver and changes to Chin

In 1871-73, newly unified Germany adopted the gold standard, replacing the silver-based currencies that had been prevalent in most German states until then. The

After the Famine examines the recovery in Irish agriculture in the wake of the disastrous potato famine of the 1840s, and presents an annual agricultural output