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Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance

by Michael Hudson
Pluto Press, 2003
Cloth: 978-0-7453-1990-2 | Paper: 978-0-7453-1989-6
Library of Congress Classification HF1455.H782 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 337.73

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    I. BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN WORLD ORDER: 1914-46
    
     1. Origins of Intergovernmental Debt, 1917-21          39
     2. Breakdown of World Balance, 1921-33                     58
     3. America Spurns World Leadership                         80
     4. Lend-Lease and Fracturing of the British Empire,
       1941-45                                                119
     5. Bretton Woods: The Triumph of U.S. Government
       Finance Capital, 1944-45                               137
     6. Isolating the Communist Bloc, 1945-46                  162
    
    II. THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
    
     7. American Strategy within the World Bank                179
     8. The Imperialism of U.S. Foreign Aid                    217
     9. GATT and the Double Standard                           248
    10. Dollar Domination through the International Monetary
       Fund, 1945-46                                          265
    
    III. MONETARY IMPERIALISM AND THE U.S. TREASURY BILL
        STANDARD
    
    11. Financing America's Wars with Other Nations' Resources,
        1964-68                                                291
    12. Power through Bankruptcy, 1968-70                     309
    13. Perfecting Empire through Monetary Crisis, 1970-72  328
    14. The Monetary Offensive of Spring 1973                 348
    15. Monetary Imperialism: The Twenty-first Century     377
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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