1st Edition

The Scottish Banks A modern survey

By Maxwell Gaskin Copyright 2006
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Banking in Scotland has a long and distinguished history - to this day Scotland is served by its own banks which form a distinct regional group within the wider British banking system. Yet, until this volume, there had been no book which gives a full account of modern Scottish banking, analyzing its position within the British banking structure. With this comprehensive study, this gap in... Read more

1. The Medieval Managed Currency and Its Collapse

2. The Failure of the Stuarts

3. The Orange

4. The Origin of Progressive Legend

5. Bishop Berkeley

6. The Americans and the Whigs

7. The First Breakdown

8. Unnecessary Poverty

9. Cheques and notes

10. The repeal of the Corn-Laws

11. The First revolts

12. The turn of the tide

13. The exceptional auxiliary

14. Disraeli's rule

15. Ireland

16. Machine running down

17. America

18. The 1920s

19. Crisis and Counter Attack

Biography

Gaskin, Maxwell