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Money has the power to make nations and fuel wars. It is both the subject of diplomacy and the tool of those seeking to overthrow hostile regimes at home and abroad. Germany's hyperinflation following the First World War has entered the public consciousness as an extreme example of what can happen to a currency in conflict. What is not widely known is that it is by no means the worst case of war-induced hyperinflation.

Hostile Money looks at the impact of war and revolution on national currencies from Rome's civil war in the first century BC to the twenty-first-century invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by American-led forces and the economic sanctions and cyberwarfare of today.



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A pleasure to read ... Impressively erudite, [Paul Wilson] never lets his command of detail hold up the story, so that the reader is swept up in the stormy history of money’s role in some of the greatest social, political and military conflicts from ancient Rome to the cyber warfare of the 21st century -- Robert Pringle, author of THE MONEY TRAP

Hostile Money

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      Publisher The History Press Ltd
      Published 23 May 2019
      ISBN-13 9780750990790
      978-0750990790
      ISBN-10 0750990791
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      Monetary economics

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Money has the power to make nations and fuel wars. It is both the subject of diplomacy and the tool of those seeking to overthrow hostile regimes at home and abroad. Germany's hyperinflation following the First World War has entered the public consciousness as an extreme example of what can happen to a currency in conflict. What is not widely known is that it is by no means the worst case of war-induced hyperinflation.

      Hostile Money looks at the impact of war and revolution on national currencies from Rome's civil war in the first century BC to the twenty-first-century invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by American-led forces and the economic sanctions and cyberwarfare of today.



      Trade Review
      A pleasure to read ... Impressively erudite, [Paul Wilson] never lets his command of detail hold up the story, so that the reader is swept up in the stormy history of money’s role in some of the greatest social, political and military conflicts from ancient Rome to the cyber warfare of the 21st century -- Robert Pringle, author of THE MONEY TRAP

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