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Description of A Financial History of Western Europe

Revised and updated throughout, this brilliant survey of European financial history from the earliest times to the present by internationally renowned scholar and author Charles P Kindleberger offers a masterful account of the evolution of money in Western Europe, bimetallism and the emergence of of the gold standard, the banking systems of the Continent and the British Isles, and overviews of foreign investment, regional and global financial integration, and private and public finance in Western Europe.

The new Edition features expanded coverage of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and important new material on recent developments in European monetary integration.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780195077384

Pages:

524 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

10372

Publisher:

Oxford University Press (Trade)

Published:

16/09/1993

Edition:

2nd Edition

Press and Industry Reviews

Praise for the First Edition:

'An astonishing achievement...A work of a vast range of topics...written with clarity, subtlety, and derived from sources in French, English and German...A book anyone even pretending to a knowledge of monetary history must have.'
Journal of Economic History

'A splendid book...It reads like Professor Kindleberger talking - which is surely high praise.'
The World Economy

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Contents of A Financial History of Western Europe

1.Introduction

Chronologies

I. Money
2. The Evolution of Money in Western Europe
3. Bank Money
4. Bimetallism and the Emergence of the Gold Standard

II. Banking
5. English and Scottish Banking
6. French Banking
7. German Banking
8. Italian and Spanish Banking

III. Finance
9. Government Finance
10. Private Finance - Individuals and Families
11. Private Finance - The Corporation
12. Foreign Investment - Dutch, British, French, and German Experience to 1914
13. Transfer Cases
14. Foreign Lending - Political and Analytical Aspects
15. Financial Crisis

IV. The Interwar Period
16. War Finance, Reparations, War Debts
17. German Postwar Inflation
18. The Restoration of the Pound to Par
19. Stabilisation of the Franc
20. The 1929 Depression
21. The 1930's

V. After World War II
22. German Finance in and After World War II
23. Lend-Lease, the British Loan, the Marshall Plan
24. European Financial Integration
25. Europe in the World Financial System

Glossary
Conversion Tables
Bibliography
Index