Finance and Financiers in European History 1880–1960
Finance and Financiers in European History 1880–1960
In this major 'state of the art' survey, a highly distinguished team of contributors addresses the complex and crucial role of finance in European history during the period 1880–1960. Throughout the volume a comparative, global perspective is used in the analysis of a problem that may in fact be perceived at four levels. Firstly, the economic: what was the weight of the financial sector in a given economy? Secondly, the social: what was the specific position of the financial élites in society? Thirdly, the political: what was the impact of financial interests in politics? And finally the international: how was Europe's position as the 'world's banker' established, then gradually eroded?. Six European countries (the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and Switzerland) are singled out for particular attention, and the rise of extra-European centres of financial power (notably USA and Japan) is considered in an extended concluding section. Both subjects and authors are truly international, and Finance and Financiers in European History makes a substantial contribution to an area of economic activity that is returning forcefully to the historical agenda.
- A 'state-of-the-art' study involving all of the leading names in the field of financial history
- Addresses the key question in the study of modern financial history
- Each essay is drawn in around a global and comparative perspective of the role and influence of internal finance
Product details
June 2002Paperback
9780521893732
464 pages
229 × 152 × 30 mm
0.74kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: the weight of finance in European societies Y. Cassis
- 2. Banking and industrialisation: Rondo Cameron twenty years on Sidney Pollard and Dieter Ziegler
- Part I. Financial Sector and Economy:
- 3. The domestic commercial banks and the City of London, 1870–1939 P. L. Cottrell
- 4. Banks and state in France from the 1880s to the 1930s: the impossible advance of the banks Andre Gueslin
- 5. An overview on the role of the large German banks up to 1914 Richard Tilly
- 6. Banks and economic development: comments Harold James
- Part II. Financial Elites and Society:
- 7. Financial elites and British society, 1880–1950 M. J. Daunton
- 8. Bankers in French society 1860s–1960s Alain Plessis
- 9. The banker in German society, 1890 to 1930 Dolores L. Augustine
- 10. Financial élites and society: comments Jose Harris
- Part III. Financial Interests and Politics:
- 11. The influence of the City over British economic policy, c.1880–1960 E. H. H. Green
- 12. The political influence of bankers and financiers in France in the years 1850–1960 Hubert Bonin
- 13. Banks and banking in Germany after the First World War: strategies of defence Gerald D. Feldman
- 14. Banks and bankers in the German interwar depression Harold James
- 15. Finance and politics: comments M. J. Daunton
- Part IV. Finance and Financiers in Smaller European Countries:
- 16. Finance and financiers in Switzerland, 1880–1960 Y. Cassis and Jakob Tanner (with Fabienne Debrunner)
- 17. Finance and financiers in Belgium, 1880–1940 G. Kurgan vann Hentenryk
- 18. The political economy of banking: retail banking and corporate finance in Sweden, 1850–1939 Mats Larsson and Hakan Lindgren
- Part V. The Rise of Extra-European Financial Centres:
- 19. Money and power: the shift from Great Britain to the United States Kathleen Burk
- 20. The Yokohama Specie Bank during the period of the restored Gold Standard in Japan (January 1930–December 1931) Hiroaki Yamaziki
- 21. International financial centres in Asia, the Middle East and Australia: a historical perspective Geoffrey Jones
- 22. Extra-financial centres: comments Mira Wilkins.
