After serving in the British Army and Diplomatic Service from 1976 to 1994, Paul Wilson joined De La Rue PLC, the world’s biggest commercial banknote printing company. Until his retirement in 2015, Wilson was responsible for De La Rue’s relationships with the British government and parliamentarians. His books include Hostile Money: Currencies in Conflict.

• AcknowledgementsGlossary1Iintroduction2The Money of Nation Builders 3International Monetary Unions in the 19th Century4Money and Empire 5The End of Empire6Secession and Accession7Countries and Currencies in Waiting8Modern Multinational Monetary Unions9Money and the Making of the StateBibliography

A potentially dry subject is however made accessible by the author’s readable style and broad scope of coverage of currency systems around the world and across ages…. Paper money aficionados will find much of interest in this highly absorbing book and its study of the relationships between nationhood and currency.

After serving in the British Army and Diplomatic Service from 1976 to 1994, Paul Wilson joined De La Rue PLC, the world’s biggest commercial banknote printing company. Until his retirement in 2015, Wilson was responsible for De La Rue’s relationships with the British government and parliamentarians. His books include Hostile Money: Currencies in Conflict.

• AcknowledgementsGlossary1Iintroduction2The Money of Nation Builders 3International Monetary Unions in the 19th Century4Money and Empire 5The End of Empire6Secession and Accession7Countries and Currencies in Waiting8Modern Multinational Monetary Unions9Money and the Making of the StateBibliography

A potentially dry subject is however made accessible by the author’s readable style and broad scope of coverage of currency systems around the world and across ages…. Paper money aficionados will find much of interest in this highly absorbing book and its study of the relationships between nationhood and currency.

After serving in the British Army and Diplomatic Service from 1976 to 1994, Paul Wilson joined De La Rue PLC, the world’s biggest commercial banknote printing company. Until his retirement in 2015, Wilson was responsible for De La Rue’s relationships with the British government and parliamentarians. His books include Hostile Money: Currencies in Conflict.

• AcknowledgementsGlossary1Iintroduction2The Money of Nation Builders 3International Monetary Unions in the 19th Century4Money and Empire 5The End of Empire6Secession and Accession7Countries and Currencies in Waiting8Modern Multinational Monetary Unions9Money and the Making of the StateBibliography

A potentially dry subject is however made accessible by the author’s readable style and broad scope of coverage of currency systems around the world and across ages…. Paper money aficionados will find much of interest in this highly absorbing book and its study of the relationships between nationhood and currency.