Description: Acknowledgments Part One: The Historical and Methodological Context 1. Introduction 2. Anchors Aweigh: The Drift Toward Crisis in the 1880s Part Two: The Baring Crisis and Its Origins 3. A Monetary and Financial Wreck: The Baring Crisis, 1890-91 4. Collision Course: Macroeconomic Policies and the Crash Part Three: The Making of the Belle poque 5. Relaunching the Gold Standard: From Monetary "Anemia" to "Plethora" and the Political Economy of Resumption, 1891-99 6. Calm Before a Storm: The Gold Standard During the Belle poque, 1899-1914 Part Four: The Travails of the Interwar Years 7. Distress Signals: Financial Fragility in the Interwar Period 8. Bailing Out: Internal versus External Convertibility 9. Steering Through the Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime Part Five: Postscript 10. Postscript Appendix 1. Histirical Statistics Appendix 2. The Law of National Guaranteed Banks Appendix 3. Money Supply Periodization, 1884-1913 Appendix 4. Money and Exchange Rates, 1884-1913 Appendix 5. Instituto Movilizador de Inversiones Bancarias Appendix 6. Humor, Politics, and the Economy References Index

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