| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 302 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in banking and financial history
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Studies in banking history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Rise of the Rothschilds: the Family Firm as Multinational; 2 The Rothschild Archive; 3 Private Banks and the Onset of the Corporate Economy; 4 London's First 'Big Bang'? Institutional Change in the City, 1855-83; 5 Banking and Family Archives; 6 The Anglo-American Houses in the Nineteenth Century; 7 The Parisian 'Haute Banque' and the International Economy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; 8 Private Banks and International Finance in the Light of the Archives of Baring Brothers. |
| Summary |
This is a full and authoritative account of the history of private banking, beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few European cities, notably Amsterdam and London. The study details the way in which private banking adapted to the age of the corporate economy from the 1870s to the 1930s, the decline during and after the Great Depression and the post-war renaissance. It concludes with an appraisal of the causes and consequences of the modern expansion of private banking: no longer the exclusive preserve of partnerships, the management of. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Private banks -- History.
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Private banks. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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| Added Author |
Cassis, Youssef.
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Cottrell, P. L., 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: World of private banking. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9781859284322 (DLC) 2009010011 (OCoLC)316099077 |
| ISBN |
9780754695844 (electronic book) |
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0754695840 (electronic book) |
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1859284329 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781859284322 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781859284322 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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