Youssef Cassis (ed.)

Finance and Financiers in European History 1880 1960

Herausgeber: Cassis, Youssef; Youssef, Cassis

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Produktbeschreibung

A highly distinguished team of contributors addresses the complex and crucial role of finance in European history during the period 1880 1960.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 899g
• ISBN-13: 9780521400244
• ISBN-10: 0521400244
• Artikelnr.: 23526323

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Introduction: the weight of finance in European societies Y.
Cassis; 2. Banking and industrialisation: Rondo Cameron twenty years on
Sidney Pollard and Dieter Ziegler; Part I. Financial Sector and Economy: 3.
The domestic commercial banks and the City of London, 1870-1939 P. L.
Cottrell; 4. Banks and state in France from the 1880s to the 1930s: the
impossible advance of the banks Andre Gueslin; 5. An overview on the role
of the large German banks up to 1914 Richard Tilly; 6. Banks and economic
development: comments Harold James; Part II. Financial Elites and Society:
7. Financial elites and British society, 1880-1950 M. J. Daunton; 8.
Bankers in French society 1860s-1960s Alain Plessis; 9. The banker in
German society, 1890 to 1930 Dolores L. Augustine; 10. Financial élites and
society: comments Jose Harris; Part III. Financial Interests and Politics:
11. The influence of the City over British economic policy, c.1880-1960 E.
H. H. Green; 12. The political influence of bankers and financiers in
France in the years 1850-1960 Hubert Bonin; 13. Banks and banking in
Germany after the First World War: strategies of defence Gerald D. Feldman;
14. Banks and bankers in the German interwar depression Harold James; 15.
Finance and politics: comments M. J. Daunton; Part IV. Finance and
Financiers in Smaller European Countries: 16. Finance and financiers in
Switzerland, 1880-1960 Y. Cassis and Jakob Tanner (with Fabienne
Debrunner); 17. Finance and financiers in Belgium, 1880-1940 G. Kurgan vann
Hentenryk; 18. The political economy of banking: retail banking and
corporate finance in Sweden, 1850-1939 Mats Larsson and Hakan Lindgren;
Part V. The Rise of Extra-European Financial Centres: 19. Money and power:
the shift from Great Britain to the United States Kathleen Burk; 20. The
Yokohama Specie Bank during the period of the restored Gold Standard in
Japan (January 1930-December 1931) Hiroaki Yamaziki; 21. International
financial centres in Asia, the Middle East and Australia: a historical
perspective Geoffrey Jones; 22. Extra-financial centres: comments Mira
Wilkins.