Pierre Pénet and Juan Flores Zendejas (eds), Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony

This ambitious volume, edited by Pierre Pénet of Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and Juan Flores Zendejas of the University of Geneva, is noteworthy for several reasons. First, while there has been a flurry of research in recent years on the history of sovereign debt by economists, historians, political scientists and sociologists, much of this work adopts the perspective of financial markets, since source material is typically drawn from the financial press, investment bank circulars, ...