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Abstract

Preliminary Pages [i-xx]
Chapter
1	Silver and Gold before the Nineteenth Century [1]
2	Some Quantitative Aspects of Silver [6]
3	Bimetallism in the United States, 1793-1873 [18]
4	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]
Selected Bibliography [397]
Indexes: Index of Names and General Index [427]