Britain, France and the Financing of the First World War

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Britain, France and the Financing of the First World War. By Martin Horn. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. VI + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-198-20871-1.

The financing of the First World War has not attracted much scholarly attention of late: if the topic matters, apparently, it does so not in its own right but because the financing of the war was the precursor of the slump. Ultimately, the principal economic constraint on the conduct of the First World War was industrial rather than monetary. That was not how it seemed at the time, ...

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