"The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "good" crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and "bad" crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial...

Introduction: a nation and a name -- The decline of family : the fall from bourgeois respectability -- Man of steel : Alfred Krupp -- Man of science : Friedrich Alfred Krupp -- Man of diplomacy : Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach -- Man of tradition : family and firm in the Weimar Republic -- Man of...

The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the...