to the debate about Britain’s decline.’ – Frank Trentmann, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. This … book is the first comprehensive history of the British Trade Corporation, which was constituted under a Royal Charter on 21 … and makes an important contribution to the financial history of interwar Britain. Brian O’Sullivan is a Visiting Research …

Financial history studies facts and institutions of the past. Such facts and institutions are interesting subjects in … themselves, or they can help us interpret the present through analogy. History & Finance reverses the role of history in finance … long-run persistence of economic and social phenomena. I first define the History & Finance approach and its relationship …

This is a short history of finance in China, covering the development of native financial institutions and practices … that the business culture in China has a lot to do with the history of financial institutions and foreign capital in the … country. A Brief History of Finance in China is also helpful in the way that it discusses Chinese traditions, not j …