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Genre/Form: | History History (form) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kindleberger, Charles Poor, 1910-2003. Financial history of western Europe. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (OCoLC)655097152 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles P Kindleberger |
ISBN: | 0195077377 9780195077377 0195077385 9780195077384 |
OCLC Number: | 26258644 |
Description: | xix, 524 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- The evolution of money in western Europe -- Bank money -- Bimetallism and the emergence of the gold standard -- English and Scottish banking -- French banking -- German banking -- Italian and Spanish banking -- Government finance -- Private finance : individuals and families -- Private finance : the corporation -- Foreign investment : Dutch, British, French, and German experience to 1914 -- Transfer cases -- Foreign lending : political and analytical aspects -- Financial crises -- War finance, reparations, war debts -- German postwar inflation -- The restoration of the pound to par -- Stabilization of the franc -- The 1929 depression -- The 1930s -- German finance in and after World War II -- Lend-lease, the British loan, the Marshall Plan -- European financial integration -- Europe in the world financial system. |
Responsibility: | Charles P. Kindleberger. |
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On the first edition:"an astonishing achievement ... 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 will end up on many undergraduate reading lists, whilst its extensive bibliography will prove a boon to [those] working their way into the field Economic History Review splendid book World Economy Read more...
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