... advantage of a favorable international situation, permitted banks to issue banknotes convertible into gold. Ouro Preto, who governed during the final five months of the empire, sought to regain the planters' allegiance to the monarchy by lending them large amounts of public funds. Although these loans saved...

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...As China emerges as a global powerhouse, this book examines its economic past and the shaping of its financial institutions. A comparative study of foreign banking in prewar China, it surveys the impact of British overseas banknotes on China's economy before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War...