TY - BOOK AU - Einzig,Paul TI - The history of foreign exchange AV - HG3811 .E35 U1 - 332.4509 PY - 1962/// CY - London, New York PB - Macmillan, St Martin's Press KW - Foreign exchange KW - Foreign exchange - history KW - Foreign exchange - ancient period KW - Foreign exchange theory and policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - To cover systematically the history of foreign exchange and is divided into chronologically based sections: Part I deals with the Ancient Period (primarily Greece and Rome, though also earlier civilizations), Part II the Medieval Period, Part III the Early Modern Period (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries), Part IV the Nineteenth Century (to World War I), Part V 1914-1960, and Part VI (added in the second edition) the 1960s. Other issues covered include: foreign exchange system as in practice; trends and exchange rate; and theory and policy respectively ER -