Monetary Plurality in Local, Regional and Global Economies

• Hardcover | Financial History
• Reforms to increase the responsiveness and flexibility of the monetary system can be part of the solution during financial and economic crisis. This b... Lees meer

Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of eleven ... Lees meer

Virginia and the Panic of 1819

Clyde A Haulman

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• Argues that the Panic of 1819 was America's first experience with a modern boom-bust cycle, and most importantly, much more than a banking panic resul... Lees meer

The Revenue Imperative

Jane S Flaherty

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• Provides a comprehensive overview of the Union financial policies during the American Civil War. This work argues that the revenue imperative, the nee... Lees meer

Camille Gutt and Postwar International Finance

Jean F Crombois

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• As a businessman, financier, diplomat, minister, and first Managing Director of the IMF, Camille Gutt (1884-1971) was involved in all the important fi... Lees meer

Regulation of the London Stock Exchange

Chris Swinson

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• In 1914, the notion of statutory regulation of trading in shares was anathema to both the Government and the London Stock Exchange. By 1945, a statuto... Lees meer

A History of Public Banking in Portugal in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Pedro Lains

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• This book examines the history of what became one of Portugal's largest banks, the Caixa Geral de Depósitos . The bank was founded in 1876 by the stat... Lees meer

The Development of the Art Market in England

Thomas M Bayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain... Lees meer

Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

Gwyn Campbell

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colon... Lees meer

Convergence and Divergence of National Financial Systems

Anders Ogren

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• This collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive approach to examining the question of convergence and divergence in Europe... Lees meer

Guilty Money

Ranald C Michie

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• This is an engaging study of the place occupied by the City of London within British cultural life during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Michie ... Lees meer

Money, Politics and Power

Richard A Kleer

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• The Nine Years' War with France was a period of great institutional innovation in public finance and of severe monetary turmoil for England. It saw th... Lees meer

The Rise and Fall of the American System

Songho Ha

• Hardcover | Financial History
• The American System was implemented by the US government after the American-British War of 1812 to develop a national domestic market. This study expl... Lees meer

Reforming the World Monetary System

Carol M Connell

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• Focusing on Fritz Machlup, Connell presents the story of the Bellagio Group and its contribution to modern finance. Initiated by Machlup the Bellagio ... Lees meer

Federal Banking in Brazil

Kurt E Von Mettenheim

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• This study is the first in a decade to provide an overview of banking in Brazil. It is argued that the big three federal banks have long provided esse... Lees meer

Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance

Michele R Costello

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• In life, Benjamin Franklin sought to manage debt, organize credit, build capital and promote virtue. After death, he continued this work by leaving a ... Lees meer

Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds

Alessandro Stanziani

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of... Lees meer

The Origins of Modern Banking in Spain

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• This book analyses the formation of the Spanish banking system. It provides a general overview of European financial systems in operation during the m... Lees meer

Towards Modern Public Finance

James W Cummings

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• Addresses the financing of the American-Mexican War of 1846-48. This study argues that the successful financing of the American-Mexican War had a long... Lees meer

The Globalization of Merchant Banking before 1850

Manuel Llorca-Jaña

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaign... Lees meer

Money in the Pre-Industrial World

John H Munro

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute ... Lees meer

Banking Modern America

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• The passage of the National Currency Act of 1863 gave the United States its first uniform paper money, its first nationally chartered and supervised c... Lees meer

Gambling on the American Dream

James R Karmel

• Paperback | Engels | Financial History
• Provides a historical perspective for understanding the exponential growth of casinos in the United States since 1990, by telling the story of Atlanti... Lees meer

Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance

• Hardcover | Engels | Financial History
• Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through mediev... Lees meer