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

Kwasi Kwarteng

432 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics informative medium-paced
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In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into multiple wars, would eventually lead to the economic ruin of...

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