The World of Private Banking (Studies in Banking and Financial History)

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
1 The Rise of the Rothschilds: the Family Firm as Multinational......Page 28
2 The Rothschild Archive......Page 58
3 Private Banks and the Onset of the Corporate Economy......Page 70
4 London’s First ‘Big Bang’? Institutional Change in the City, 1855–83......Page 88
5 Banking and Family Archives......Page 126
6 The Anglo-American Houses in the Nineteenth Century......Page 138
7 The Parisian ‘Haute Banque’ and the International Economy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries......Page 154
8 Private Banks and International Finance in the Light of the Archives of Baring Brothers......Page 168
9 German Private Banks and German Industry, 1830–1938......Page 186
10 Private Bankers and Italian Industrialisation......Page 204
11 Private Banks and Industry in the Light of the Archives of Bank Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie., Cologne......Page 232
12 Jewish Private Banks......Page 240
13 Protestant Banking......Page 258
14 Private Bankers and Philanthropy: the City of London, 1880s–1920s......Page 274
15 Hereditary Calling, Inherited Refinement: the Private Bankers of the City of London, 1914–86......Page 290
Bibliography......Page 300
Index......Page 322