J. Samuel Barkin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and the coeditor (with George E. Shambaugh) of Anarchy and the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources, also published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments 1. Financial Predominance and International Economic Leadership 2. Social Construction and the Logic of Money 3. The Seventeenth Century and Dutch Leadership 4. The Nineteenth Century and British Leadership 5. The Interwar Period and the Great Depression 6. The Postwar Period: American Leadership? 7. Conclusions and Implications Notes References Index

J. Samuel Barkin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and the coeditor (with George E. Shambaugh) of Anarchy and the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources, also published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments 1. Financial Predominance and International Economic Leadership 2. Social Construction and the Logic of Money 3. The Seventeenth Century and Dutch Leadership 4. The Nineteenth Century and British Leadership 5. The Interwar Period and the Great Depression 6. The Postwar Period: American Leadership? 7. Conclusions and Implications Notes References Index

J. Samuel Barkin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and the coeditor (with George E. Shambaugh) of Anarchy and the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources, also published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments 1. Financial Predominance and International Economic Leadership 2. Social Construction and the Logic of Money 3. The Seventeenth Century and Dutch Leadership 4. The Nineteenth Century and British Leadership 5. The Interwar Period and the Great Depression 6. The Postwar Period: American Leadership? 7. Conclusions and Implications Notes References Index