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History of Financial Institutions: Essays on the history of European finance, 1800–1950 book cover

1st Edition

History of Financial Institutions Essays on the history of European finance, 1800–1950

Edited By Carmen Hofmann, Martin L. Müller Copyright 2017
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge
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Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

　

  1. Jeffrey Fear (Glasgow University)

    2. Gerald D. Feldman: An appreciation.

    　

  2. Peter Hertner (Marthin Luther University Halle Wittenberg)

    3. Starting from scratch? The beginnings of Banca Commerciale Italiana 1893 – 1894.

    　　

  3. Randal Michie (University of Durham)

    4. Jewish financiers in the City of London: Reality and rhetoric, 1830 – 1914.

    　　

  4. Dieter Stiefel (University of Vienna)

    5. The financial culture of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of the 19th century.

    　　

  5. Hubert Bonin (Science Po Bordeaux)

    6. French banks and public opinion. The public’s negative perception of the French banking establishment (from the 1800s to the 1950s).

    　

  6. Phil Cottrell (University of Leicester)

    7. Many a slip between cup and lip’: initiating Austrian stabilisation, 1922-1923.

    　　

  7. Martin L. Müller (Deutsche Bank)

    8. Why were there no investment trusts in Germany? An analysis of an anomaly in the German financial industry from 1870 to 1957.

    　　

  8. Ulrike Zimmerl (Bank Austria – UniCredit)

    9. Comradery, the joys of work, and the struggle to improve performance Creditanstalt-Bankverein’s corporate newspaper ‘Gemeinschaft’, 1939-1943.　

    　

  9. Nuno Valério (Lisbon School of Economics and Management, ISEG)

          A non-neutral, non- belligerent country: Portugal during World War II. From a financial viewpoint.

Biography

Carmen Hofmann is Secretary General of eabh (The European Association for Banking and Financial History e.V.), Germany.

Martin L. Müller is Director of the Historical Institute of Deutsche Bank and chairman of the German Association of Business Archivists (VdW), Germany.

eabh maintains a global network of financial professionals and academics. Banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are members of eabh. eabh places current challenges of the financial sector into a historical context. Our historians work on long-term topics that matter to the management of financial institutions and policy makers. To this end eabh promotes archives, organizes workshops, conferences and trainings and publishes in-house and in cooperation with renowned publishers.

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