State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898-1941: The Mismanagement of an American Colony Tapa blanda - 2015

Paperback / softback. New.

Nus Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. 272 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches.

Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2015.. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 248pp, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. "During the First World War, ill-advised steps by colonial officials in the Philippines created a financial crisis which lasted from 1919 until 1922. The circumstances shook the foundations of the American colonial state and contributed to Manuel L. Quezon's successful effort to replace Sergio Osmeña as leader of the politically dominant Nacionalista Party. These events have generally been blamed on a corruption scandal at the Philippine National Bank, which had been established in 1916 as a multi-purpose, semi-governmental agency whose purpose was to provide loans for the agricultural export industry, to do business as a commercial bank, to issue bank notes, and to serve as a depository for government funds. Based on detailed archival research, Yoshiko Nagano argues that the crisis in fact resulted from mismanagement of currency reserves and irregularities in… Leer más

Singapore: NUS Press, 2015. Paperback. New. This book demonstrates that Philippine financial insecurity is nothing new. As this book demonstrates, financial difficulties were prevalent in the US colonial period as well. Based on a reexamination of original documents, the author argues that the major financial crisis of the early 1920s was a result of colonial mismanagement rather than 'corruption' at the Philippine National Bank, as had previously been believed. 248 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. Weight: 0.6kg. Post free within Malaysia