Benjamin Cohen tells the dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious
The traditional assumption holds that the territory of money coincides precisely with the political frontiers of each nation state: France has the franc, the Un
A key figure in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Benjamin V. Cohen (1894–1983) was a major architect of public policy from th
The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually
At any given time, a limited number of national currencies are used as instruments of international commerce, to settle foreign trade transactions or store valu
