A Financial History Of Western Europe.

This Is The First History Of Finance - Broadly Defined To Include Money, Banking, Capital Markets, Public And Private Finance, International Transfers And The Like - That Covers Western Europe (with An Occasional Glance At The Western Hemisphhere) And Half A Millenium. Charles Kindleberger Highlights The Development Of Financial Institutions To Meet Emerging Needs, And The Similarities And Contrasts In The Handling Of Financial Problems Such As Transferring Resources From One Country To Another, Investment Or Financing War And Cleaning Up The Resulting Monetary Mess. The First Half Of The Book Covers Money, Banking And Finance From About 1450 To 1913; The Second Deals In Considerably More Detail With The Twentieth Century. This Major Work Casts Current Issues In Historical Perspective And Throws Lights On The Fascinating - And Far From Orderly - Evolution Of Financial Institutions And The Management Of Financial Problems. Comprehensive, Critical And Cosmoplitan, A Financial History Of Western Europe Is Both An Outstanding Work Of Reference In The Study And Practice Of Finance, Be They Economic Historians, Financial Experts, Scholarly Bankers Or Students Of Money And Banking. Charles P. Kindleberger. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [477]-511. Cover ......Page 1 By the same author......Page 3 Contents......Page 8 Illustrations......Page 16 Tables......Page 17 Apologies and Acknowledgements ......Page 18 1 Introduction ......Page 20 Chronologies ......Page 28 PART ONE MONEY ......Page 34 Introduction to Part One ......Page 36 2 The Evolution .of Money in Western Europe ......Page 38 3 Bank Money ......Page 54 4 Bimetallism and the Emergence of the Gold Standard ......Page 74 PART TWO BANKING ......Page 90 Introduction to Part Two ......Page 92 5 English and Scottish Banking ......Page 94 6 French Banking ......Page 114 7 German Banking ......Page 136 8 Italian and Spanish Banking ......Page 155 PART THREE FINANCE ......Page 172 Introduction to Part Three ......Page 174 9 Government Finance ......Page 177 10 Private Finance, Individuals and Families ......Page 196 11 Private Finance-The Corporation ......Page 214 12 Foreign Investment-Dutch, British, French and German Experience to 1914 ......Page 232 13 Transfer Cases ......Page 251 14 Foreign Lending-Political and Analytical Aspects ......Page 271 15 Financial Crises ......Page 288 PART FOUR THE INTERWAR PERIOD ......Page 306 Introduction to Part Four ......Page 308 16 War Finance, Reparations, War Debts ......Page 310 17 German Postwar Inflation ......Page 329 18 The Restoration of the Pound to Par ......Page 348 19 Stabilization of the Franc ......Page 365 20 The 1929 Depression ......Page 383 21 The 1930s ......Page 404 PART FIVE AFTER WORLD WAR II ......Page 420 Introduction to Part Five ......Page 422 22 German Finance In and After World War II ......Page 423 23 Lend-Lease, the British Loan, the Marshall Plan ......Page 443 24 European Financial Integration ......Page 466 Glossary ......Page 484 Conversion Tables-Equivalences and Exchange Rates for Specified Coins and Currencies at Specified Dates ......Page 493 Bibliography ......Page 496 Index ......Page 532