War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt by Kwasi Kwarteng
War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
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Kwasi Kwarteng
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War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt

Kwasi Kwarteng

432 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction business history informative medium-paced
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The world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spain promoted gold and silver exploration in the New World with ruthless urgency. But, the great influx of wealth brou...

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