Super imperialism : the origin and fundamentals of U.S. world dominance / Michael Hudson.

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BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN WORLD ORDER: 1914-46 -- Origins of Intergovernmental Debt, 1917-21 -- Breakdown of World Balance, 1921-33 -- America Spurns World Leadership -- Lend-Lease and Fracturing of the British Empire, 1941-45 -- Bretton Woods: The Triumph of U.S. Government Finance Capital, 1944-45 -- Isolating the Communist Bloc, 1945-46 -- THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE -- AmericanStrategy within the World Bank -- The Imperialism of U.S. Foreign Aid -- GATT and the Double Standard -- Dollar Domination through the International Monetary Fund, 1945-46 -- MONETARY IMPERIALISM AND THE U.S. TREASURY BILL STANDARD -- Financing America's Wars with Other Nations' Resources, 1964-68 -- Power through Bankruptcy, 1968-70 -- Perfecting Empire through Monetary Crisis, 1970-72 -- The Monetary Offensive of Spring 1973 -- Monetary Imperialism: The Twenty-first Century.