General Sites A page from the European Commission, 'From Rome to Maastricht: a brief history of EMU' europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l25007 A page with many links to monetary history pages www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/other.html A glossary of monetary terms www.micheloud.com/FXM/MH/Glossary History of money See the British Museum’s excellent online exhibits: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/worldofmoney For a whole online book on bimetallism (note the date), see The History of Bimetallism in the United States, by J. Laurence Laughlin, D. Appleton and Co. New York, 1898. www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Laughlin/lghHBMtoc.html For more on gold, the gold standard, etc. see www.goldinstitute.org/history Interwar period For a number of source documents from the interwar period, see www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/interwar.htm This online version of Keynes classic The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John Maynard Keynes, 1919, is especially interesting. socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/keynes/peace.htm - as is Benito Mussolini’s What is Fascism?, 1932. www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html For information on the Wall Street Crash of 1929, see www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/crash/crashhtm.htm Early post-war period An IMF site on the history of the Bretton Woods system: www.imfsite.org/origins/confer.html The title says it all: The Bretton Woods International Monetary System: An Historical Overview by leading economic historian Michael D. Bordo. www.nber.org/papers/w4033 |