Bimetallism in France and the Latin Monetary Union [25]
5
The Demonetization of Silver in Europe [30]
6
The Silver Question in the United States, 1873-1893 [36]
7
International Monetary Conferences [45]
8
The Abandonment of silver by the United States, 1893-1900 [55]
9
Silver and India before 1892 [65]
10
Indian Currency Reforms, 1892-1914 [75]
11
Silver and China [86]
12
Business in China under the Silver Standard [101]
13
The Change from Silver to Gold Standards in Asia and Latin America [108]
14
Proposals for Monetary Reform in China [131]
15
The Wartime Rise in the Price of Silver, 1915-1920 [135]
16
The Postwar Decline in the Price of Silver, 1920-1933 [140]
17
The Pittman Act of 1918 [145]
18
Decreased Use of Silver in Coinage [151]
19
The Effect of the World War on the Indian Currency System [166]
20
Postwar Changes in the Indian Currency System [174]
21
Chinese Trade and Currency During and After the World War [195]
22
The Effect on China of the Fall in the Price of Silver, 1929-1933 [207]
23
Proposals to Do Something for Silver, 1923-1933 [224]
24
The Arguments for Doing Something for Silver [236]
25
Silver under the New Deal, 1933 244]
26
The Silver Purchase Act of 1934 [257]
27
The Execution of the Act, 1935 [282]
28
The Effect of American Silver Policy on China, 1934 and 1935 [293]
29
The Abandonment of the silver Standard by China [313]
30
Developments in the Silver Situation, 1936-1939 [327]
31
Summary and Conclusions [344]
Appendixes
1
Source of Data for Chart 1 [353]
2
Current Data [355]
3
The Computation of Parity Constants [358]
4
Coinage Ratios and Bullion Parities of Silver Coins [362]
5
World Consumption of Silver, 1920-1938 [367]
6
Distribution of World's Gold and Silver in 1933 [368]
7
Text of Part of Thomas Amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act, Approved May 12, 1933 [372]
8
The London Silver Agreement of July 22, 1933 [374]
9
President Roosevelt's Silver-Purchase Proclamation of December 21, 1933 [377]
10
Extract from President Roosevelt's Message to Congress of January 15, 1934, Recommending Legislation on Gold [379]
11
Text of Pittman Amendment to Gold Reserve Act of 1934 [381]
12
President Roosevelt's Message to Congress of May 22, 1934 Recommending Legislation on Silver [382]
13
The Silver Purchase Act of 1934 [384]
14
President Roosevelt's Proclamation of August 9, 1934 Authorizing the Mints to Receive Silver Situated in the Continental United States on that Date [389]
15
President Roosevelt's Executive Order of August 9, 1934 Requiring the Delivery of Silver to the United States Mints [391]
16
Recorded Monthly Net Exports of Silver from China, 1933-1938 [394]