A Financial History of Western Europe

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