History of financial institutions : essays on the history of European finance, 1800-1950

1. Gerald D. Feldman : an appreciation / Jeffrey Fear -- 2. Starting from scratch? The beginnings of Banca Commerciale Italiana : 1893-1894 / Peter Hertner -- 3. Jewish financiers in the city of London : reality and rhetoric, 1830-1914 / Randal Michie -- 4. The financial culture of the Habsburg monarchy at the end of the 19th century / Dieter Stiefel -- 5. French banks and public opinion : the public's negative perception of the French banking establishment (from the 1800s to the 1950s) / Hubert Bonin -- 6. 'Many a slip between cup and lip' : initiating Austrian stabilisation, 1922-1923 / P.L. Cottrell -- 7. Why were there no investment trusts in Germany? An analysis of an anomaly in the German financial industry from 1870 to 1957 / Martin L. Muller -- 8. Comradery, the joys of work, and the struggle to improve performance : Creditanstalt-Bankverein's corporate newspaper, Gemeinschaft, 1939-1943 / Ulrike Zimmerl -- 9. A non-neutral, non- belligerent country : Portugal during the Second World War from a financial viewpoint / Nuno Valerio.