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War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
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War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt Hardcover - 2014

by Kwarteng, Kwasi

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PublicAffairs. Used - Very Good. 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good.
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  • Title War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
  • Author Kwarteng, Kwasi
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 440
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
  • Date 2014-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # D101592
  • ISBN 9781586487683 / 158648768X
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.7 in (23.88 x 15.49 x 4.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013952850
  • Dewey Decimal Code 332.4

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2014, Page 15
  • Choice, 01/01/2015, Page 861
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2014, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 09/14/2014, Page 18
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/13/2014, Page 0

About the author

Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London in 1975. He earned a PhD in History from Cambridge University in 2000. Kwasi was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in 2010 and sat on the House of Commons Transport Select Committee from 2010 to 2013; he currently sits on the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee. His first book, Ghosts of Empire, was published to critical acclaim by Bloomsbury in the UK and PublicAffairs in US in August, 2011. His second book, War and Gold, was published in May, 2014. In 2022 he was named Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK.