Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction Alice Teichova,
Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk and Dieter Ziegler; Part I. Origins of
Banking: from Local to Distant Markets: 2. The impact of Italian banking in
the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1300-1500 David Abulafia; 3. The
great German banking houses and international merchants, from the sixteenth
to the nineteenth century Michael North; 4. Public banks, trade and
industry in southern Italy, from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century
Paola Avallone; 5. Financial circuits in Spain: merchants and bankers,
1700-1914 Monserrat Gárate Ojanguren; Part II. The Banks' Influence in
Leading Industrial Economies: 6. Banking and the evolution of the British
economy, 1694-1878 H. L. Bowen and P. L. Cottrell; 7. Banks, economic
development and capitalism in France Eric Bussière; 8. The influence of
banking on the rise and expansion of industrial capitalism in Germany
Dieter Ziegler; 9. Banks and the rise of capitalism in Switzerland, from
the fifteenth to the twentieth century Youssef Cassis; 10. The influence of
banking on the rise of capitalism in north-west Europe, from the fourteenth
to the nineteenth century Herman van der Wee; Part III. The Banks' Impact
on 'Follower' and 'Latecomer' Economies: 11. The influence of banking on
the development of capitalism in Scandinavian countries Håkan Lindgren; 12.
Banking and industry in central Europe, from the nineteenth to the
twentieth century Alice Teichova; 13. Banking and economic development in
Spain Gabriel Tortella; 14. The role of banking in Italy's
industrialization, from the nineteenth to the twentieth century Luigi
DeRosa; 15. The role of European banks in the Ottoman Empire in the second
half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Elena
Frangakis-Syrett; 16. The role of banks in establishing a community of
firms in Russia Andrei Yudanov; Part IV. The Expansion of Banking in the
American and Asian Economies: 17. Banking in North America 1700-1900 Larry
Schweikart; 18. Banking as class action: social and national struggles in
the history of Canadian banking Robert C. H. Sweeny; 19. Nation-building
and the origins of banking in Latin America, 1850-1930 Carlos Marichal; 20.
Banking, trade and the rise of capitalism in Argentina, 1850-1930 Andrés M.
Regalsky; 21. International banking in China, 1890-1913 Shizuya Nishimura;
22. The role of banking in Japan, 1859-1973 Kanji Ishii.
