1st Edition
European Banks and the Rise of International Finance The post-Bretton Woods era
By Carlo Edoardo Altamura
Copyright 2017
296 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
294 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The banking and financial sector has expanded dramatically in the last forty years, and the consequences of this accelerated growth have been felt by people around the world. European Banks and the Rise of International Finance examines the historical origins of the financialised world we live in by analysing the transformations in world finance which occurred in the decade from the first... Read more
List of Archives
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
INTRODUCTION - ‘Post Fata Resurgo’: At the Origins of Modern Finance
CHAPTER I - Halcyon Days
CHAPTER II- Half Measures
CHAPTER III- The Impact of Oil
CHAPTER IV- Full Measures
CHAPTER V- Wuthering Heights
References
Biography
Carlo Edoardo Altamura is a postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, a visiting college research associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, and a visiting scholar at the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge, UK. His interests lie in post-war banking and financial history in the West and in the developing regions.
