Section 1: Early colonial transitions: commodity, international and colonial currencies -- 1. “Here there is no gold standard. Cows are the standard”. Currencies, wealth accumulation and the monetary transition in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (1896-1936); Domenico Cristofaro --...

Covering the colonial Empire (including West Indies, India, Singapore, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a detailed revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to...