Author: KWARTENG, KWASI
Title: War and gold. A 500-year history of empires, adventures, and debt
Description: New York: PublicAffairs, 2014; 8vo (24.5cm), (4+)424(2)pp. appendix, endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy. Scarce in NL. ¶ The author was the shortest serving finance minister of the UK, under the equally short serving PM Liz Truss. His books, however, are better.

Keywords: economic history international relations political history