Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Section One. No Banks without States, and No States without Banks -- 1. If Stable and Efficient Banks Are Such a Good Idea, Why Are They So Rare? -- 2. The Game of Bank Bargains -- 3. Tools of Conquest and Survival Why States Need Banks -- 4. Privileges with...

If stable and efficient banks are such a good idea, why are they so rare? -- The game of bank bargains -- Tools of conquest and survival : why states need banks -- Privileges with burdens : war, empire, and the monopoly structure of English banking -- Banks and democracy : Britain in the...

Building North American nation-states, 1774-1871 -- Canada in the shadow of industrial America, 1871-1903 -- Beginning a bilateral relationship, 1903-1918 -- A relationship matures, 1919-1938 -- World War to Cold War, 1939-1947 -- Canada in the new American empire, 1948-1960 -- The moose that...