Description: Preface; 1. Introduction: the weight of finance in European societies Y. Cassis; 2. Banking and industrialisation: Rondo Cameron twenty years on Sidney Pollard and Dieter Ziegler; Part I. Financial Sector and Economy: 3. The domestic commercial banks and the City of London, 1870-1939 P. L. Cottrell; 4. Banks and state in France from the 1880s to the 1930s: the impossible advance of the banks Andre Gueslin; 5. An overview on the role of the large German banks up to 1914 Richard Tilly; 6. Banks and economic development: comments Harold James; Part II. Financial Elites and Society: 7. Financial elites and British society, 1880-1950 M. J. Daunton; 8. Bankers in French society 1860s-1960s Alain Plessis; 9. The banker in German society, 1890 to 1930 Dolores L. Augustine; 10. Financial lites and society: comments Jose Harris; Part III. Financial Interests and Politics: 11. The influence of the City over British economic policy, c.1880-1960 E. H. H. Green; 12. The political influence of bankers and financiers in France in the years 1850-1960 Hubert Bonin; 13. Banks and banking in Germany after the First World War: strategies of defence Gerald D. Feldman; 14. Banks and bankers in the German interwar depression Harold James; 15. Finance and politics: comments M. J. Daunton; Part IV. Finance and Financiers in Smaller European Countries: 16. Finance and financiers in Switzerland, 1880-1960 Y. Cassis and Jakob Tanner (with Fabienne Debrunner); 17. Finance and financiers in Belgium, 1880-1940 G. Kurgan vann Hentenryk; 18. The political economy of banking: retail banking and corporate finance in Sweden, 1850-1939 Mats Larsson and Hakan Lindgren; Part V. The Rise of Extra-European Financial Centres: 19. Money and power: the shift from Great Britain to the United States Kathleen Burk; 20. The Yokohama Specie Bank during the period of the restored Gold Standard in Japan (January 1930-December 1931) Hiroaki Yamaziki; 21. International financial centres in Asia, the Middle East and Australia: a historical perspective Geoffrey Jones; 22. Extra-financial centres: comments Mira Wilkins.

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