Banking, Trade and Industry: Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 5/15/1997
EAN 9780521573610, ISBN10: 0521573610

Hardcover, 444 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm
Language: English

The theme of this volume, first published in 1997, is challenging both in its scale and in its scope. Its purpose is to take account of the state of research and writing on the symbiotic relationship between banking, trade and industry, and the state during the rise and expansion of capitalism, as well as to compare and assess the results in order to widen current perspectives. Topics range from the origins of banking in the Middle Ages, through the influence of banks in leading industrial economies as well as in 'latecomer' economies, to the expansion of banking in America and Asia.

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction Alice Teichova, Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk and Dieter Ziegler
Part I. Origins of Banking
from Local to Distant Markets
2. The impact of Italian banking in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1300–1500 David Abulafia
3. The great German banking houses and international merchants, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century Michael North
4. Public banks, trade and industry in southern Italy, from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century Paola Avallone
5. Financial circuits in Spain
merchants and bankers, 1700–1914 Monserrat Gárate Ojanguren
Part II. The Banks' Influence in Leading Industrial Economies
6. Banking and the evolution of the British economy, 1694–1878 H. L. Bowen and P. L. Cottrell
7. Banks, economic development and capitalism in France Eric Bussière
8. The influence of banking on the rise and expansion of industrial capitalism in Germany Dieter Ziegler
9. Banks and the rise of capitalism in Switzerland, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century Youssef Cassis
10. The influence of banking on the rise of capitalism in north-west Europe, from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century Herman van der Wee
Part III. The Banks' Impact on 'Follower' and 'Latecomer' Economies
11. The influence of banking on the development of capitalism in Scandinavian countries HÃ¥kan Lindgren
12. Banking and industry in central Europe, from the nineteenth to the twentieth century Alice Teichova
13. Banking and economic development in Spain Gabriel Tortella
14. The role of banking in Italy's industrialization, from the nineteenth to the twentieth century Luigi DeRosa
15. The role of European banks in the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Elena Frangakis-Syrett
16. The role of banks in establishing a community of firms in Russia Andrei Yudanov
Part IV. The Expansion of Banking in the American and Asian Economies
17. Banking in North America 1700–1900 Larry Schweikart
18. Banking as class action
social and national struggles in the history of Canadian banking Robert C. H. Sweeny
19. Nation-building and the origins of banking in Latin America, 1850–1930 Carlos Marichal
20. Banking, trade and the rise of capitalism in Argentina, 1850–1930 Andrés M. Regalsky
21. International banking in China, 1890–1913 Shizuya Nishimura
22. The role of banking in Japan, 1859–1973 Kanji Ishii.