Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan

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“Lever of Empire is an engrossing page turner—I simply could not put it down until I had finished it. This is an important subject, and one that has not been given adequate attention in Western scholarship on Japan until now. Metzler has done thorough research, and has woven these materials together into an elegantly written whole. The result is an outstanding book.”—Richard J. Smethurst, author of A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism: The Army and the Rural Community

• Author: Mark Metzler
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Published: 2006-03-13
• Pages: 396
• ISBN-13: 9780520244207