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A Financial History of Western Europe by Charles Kindleberger
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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.

    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

    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


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