THEO BALDERSTON is Senior Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Manchester, UK. He has researched the interplay between markets, macroeconomic policies and politics, particularly in relation to interwar Germany. His publications include The Origins and Course of the German Economic Crisis 1923-1932 and Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic.

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression; T.Balderston Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada; P.Siklos France in the Depression of the Early 1930s; P.Villa Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience; M.Kitson 'Dancing on a Volcano': The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany 1924-33; A.Ritschl The Slump in Interwar India; G.Balachandran New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation Without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis; J.Singleton The Soviet Union During the Great Depression: The Autarky Model; P.Gregory & J.Sailors Afterword; B.Eichengreen & P.Temin

THEO BALDERSTON is Senior Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Manchester, UK. He has researched the interplay between markets, macroeconomic policies and politics, particularly in relation to interwar Germany. His publications include The Origins and Course of the German Economic Crisis 1923-1932 and Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic.

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression; T.Balderston Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada; P.Siklos France in the Depression of the Early 1930s; P.Villa Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience; M.Kitson 'Dancing on a Volcano': The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany 1924-33; A.Ritschl The Slump in Interwar India; G.Balachandran New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation Without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis; J.Singleton The Soviet Union During the Great Depression: The Autarky Model; P.Gregory & J.Sailors Afterword; B.Eichengreen & P.Temin

THEO BALDERSTON is Senior Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Manchester, UK. He has researched the interplay between markets, macroeconomic policies and politics, particularly in relation to interwar Germany. His publications include The Origins and Course of the German Economic Crisis 1923-1932 and Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic.

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression; T.Balderston Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada; P.Siklos France in the Depression of the Early 1930s; P.Villa Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience; M.Kitson 'Dancing on a Volcano': The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany 1924-33; A.Ritschl The Slump in Interwar India; G.Balachandran New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation Without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis; J.Singleton The Soviet Union During the Great Depression: The Autarky Model; P.Gregory & J.Sailors Afterword; B.Eichengreen & P.Temin