The City Of London Volume 3
Illusions of Gold 1914 - 1945
Illusions of Gold, the third volume of David Kynaston's magnificent quartet, The City of London, sweeps us from 1914 to 1945, through years of fluctuating fortunes that began with the City at an all-time high, and ended with the 'Square Mile' ravaged by bombs, at its lowest ebb ever. With unerring judgement and story-telling verve, Kynaston takes us through the City's vain attempt to recover the glory days before the First World War, in the return to the Gold Standard. He follows its tussles with government over control of monetary policy, investigates its increasingly important links with British industry and gives a pioneering account of it…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4481-1231-9
- EAN: 9781448112319
- Produktnummer: 17532902
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'689 KB
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David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. After graduating from New College Oxford, he studied at the London School of Economics. A professional historian, in addition to the four-volume The City of London, his works include King Labour: A History of the British Working Class, 1850-1914, histories of the Financial Times and the stockbrokers Cazenove & co., and the first two volumes in a planned history of Britain between 1945 and 1979, Austerity Britain, 1945-51 and Family Britain, 1951-57.
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Illusions of Gold 1914 - 1945
Illusions of Gold 1914 - 1945
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