This is widely acknowledged as a scholarly and well-documented study of early banking in England. It bridges gaps in the early history of English banking and deals with the operations of the pre-Bank of England bankers, the evolution of English paper money and the remarkable transactions of the...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Photographs, and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Origins of Shanghai Native Banks -- The Origins of the Shanghai Native Banks -- Money and Native Banks -- Shanxi Banks -- The...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Early life and activities of Frederick Huth, founder of the company, c.1777-1822 -- 2 Expansion of the firm during the 1820s-1830s and the South American branches...

In Invested Interests, Bret Benjamin contends that the World Bank has, from its inception, trafficked in culture. From the political context in which the Bank was chartered to its evolution into an interventionist development agency with vast, unchecked powers, Benjamin explores the Banks...

<i>The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933</i>, by Frederic Delano Grant, Jr., details the evolution of modern deposit insurance from collective responsibility for debt enforced under the Canton System

These two volumes were written on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Bank of Israel. They recount the monetary history of Israel from 1948, when the country was established (and before) to the present day. Volume I retells Israel's monetary history, analyzes the...

Despite the political potency of money and banking issues, historians have largely dismissed the Progressive Era political debate over banking as irrelevant and have been preoccupied with explaining the shortcomings, limitations and inadequacies of the Federal Reserve Act. The picture that has...

The Jewish community in Rome is the oldest in Europe, the only one to have existed continuously for over 2,000 years. This detailed study of the Jewish banking community in Italy is therefore of special value and interest. Poliakov's classic account of the rise and fall of the Jewish bankers is...

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 The Missing Geography of Capital Markets -- CHAPTER 3 Conceptualizing Regional Financial Markets...

Dreißig Jahre nach seiner Ermordung: ein neuer Blick auf Alfred Herrhausen. Er war geprägt von der Erziehung an einer NS-Eliteschule, verwurzelt im rheinischen Kapitalismus, vernetzt mit den Spitzen von Politik und Wirtschaft - und zugleich war Alfred Herrhausen seiner Zeit immer voraus. Seine...