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asian history
Author_Mark Metzler
business and finance
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deflation
depression
east asian history
economic policy
economics
edo
empire
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fascism
financial history
global politics
gold and currency
gold standard
government policy
history
imperial japan
imperial state
imperialism
japan
japanese empire
liberalism
london
modern japan
money
nonfiction
political extremism
politics
us isolationism
world war two
ww2
Product details
- ISBN 9780520244207
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Mar 2006
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Mark Metzler is Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
