Synopses & Reviews
This work provides an authoritative study of the interwar financial history of Europe. The policies and practices leading to, and flowing from, the exchange rate crises and banking failures of 1929-33 are explored at three levels: overall themes studies in an international perspective, comparative analyses of the experience of pairs of countries, and detailed surveys of individual countries.
Review
"...Masterly and thoroughly up-to-date... It should immediatley find its way on to all reading lists for graduate and undergraduate courses in international economic history...a lasting work of reference."--Journal of Economic Literature