Beyond measure : the hidden history of measurement
James Vincent
An international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development. Traces the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, and combines archival research with political, economic, legal, and military history to reveal how a coercive wartime tool was adopted as an instrument of peacekeeping by the League of Nations.
