The Global Gold Market and the International Monetary System from the late 19th Century to the Present

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Towards a Global History of Gold

   • Sandra Bott

   Pages 1-16

3. The Global Gold Market and the International Monetary System

   • Catherine R. Schenk

   Pages 17-38

4. Gold in Latin America: What the Gold Standard Meant in Brazil and Mexico at the Beginning of the 20th Century

   • Steven Topik

   Pages 39-63

5. The Bank of England as the World Gold Market Maker during the Classical Gold Standard Era, 1889–1910

   • Stefano Ugolini

   Pages 64-87

6. Gold Refining in London: The End of the Rainbow, 1919–22

   • Michele Blagg

   Pages 88-108

7. South African Gold at the Heart of the Competition between the Zurich and London Gold Markets at a Time of Global Regulation, 1945–68

   • Sandra Bott

   Pages 109-138

8. The Hong Kong Gold Market during the 1960s: Local and Global Effects

   • Catherine R. Schenk

   Pages 139-158

9. Gold as a Diplomatic Tool: How the Threat of Gold Purchases Worked as Leverage in International Monetary Relations, 1960–68

   • Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

   Pages 159-180

10. Market Status/Status Markets: The London Gold Fixing in the Bretton Woods Era

    • Rachel Harvey

    Pages 181-198

11. Back Matter

    Pages 199-205

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Using an inter-disciplinary and global approach this book examines the different roles gold played in the international economy from the late 19th century until today. It gives a complete and comprehensive overview of the many facets of the global gold market's organization from the extraction of this precious metal to its consumption.

• bank
• Bretton Woods
• competition
• investments and securities
• banking

• University of Lausanne, Switzerland

  Sandra Bott

Catherine R. Schenk, University of Glasgow, UK Steven Topik, University of California, Irvine, USA Stefano Ugolini, Sciences Po Toulouse, France Michele Blagg, Institute of Contemporary British History, King's College London, UK Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Rachel Harvey, Columbia University, USA

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