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Dollars and Dominion - (America in the World) by Mary Bridges (Hardcover)

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  • How the creation of a new banking infrastructure in the early twentieth century established the United States as a global financial power The dominance of US multinational businesses today can seem at first like an inevitable byproduct of the nation's superpower status.
  • About the Author: Mary Bridges, a historian of the twentieth-century United States, is the Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
  • 280 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Banks & Banking
  • Series Name: America in the World

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About the Book



"A history of the globalization of US banking in the early twentieth century"--



Book Synopsis



How the creation of a new banking infrastructure in the early twentieth century established the United States as a global financial power

The dominance of US multinational businesses today can seem at first like an inevitable byproduct of the nation's superpower status. In Dollars and Dominion, Mary Bridges tells a different origin story. She explores the ramshackle beginnings of US financial power overseas, showing that US bankers in the early twentieth century depended on the US government, European know-how, and last-minute improvisation to sustain their work abroad. Bridges focuses on an underappreciated piece of the nation's financial infrastructure--the overseas branch bank--as a brick-and-mortar foundation for expanding US commercial influence.

Bridges explores how bankers sorted their new communities into "us"--potential clients--and "them"--local populations, who often existed on the periphery of the banking world. She argues that US bankers mapped their new communities by creating foreign credit information--and by using a financial asset newly enabled by the Federal Reserve System, the bankers' acceptance, in the process. In doing so, they constructed a new architecture of US trade finance that relied on long-standing inequalities and hierarchies of privilege. Thus, racialized, class-based, and gendered ideas became baked into the financial infrastructure.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, there was nothing inevitable or natural about the rise of US finance capitalism. Bridges shows that US foreign banking was a bootstrapped project that began as a side hustle of Gilded Age tycoons and sustained itself by relying on the power of the US state, copying the example of British foreign bankers, and building alliances with local elites. In this way, US bankers constructed a flexible and durable new infrastructure to support the nation's growing global power.



Review Quotes




"Carefully researched."---Edward Chancellor, Times Literary Supplement

"Dollars and Dominion is a book of impressive breadth.. . . . [and] draws on an extensive array of archival materials."---Seokju Oh, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

"Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize, Lionel Gelber Foundation"

"Honorable Mention for the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"

"[An] indispensable account of the prehistory of the U.S. economic security state."---Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs



About the Author



Mary Bridges, a historian of the twentieth-century United States, is the Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.3 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x 1.2 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.4 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: America in the World
Sub-Genre: Banks & Banking
Genre: Business + Money Management
Number of Pages: 280
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Mary Bridges
Language: English
Street Date: October 8, 2024
TCIN: 90195758
UPC: 9780691248134
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-8474
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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