Contents

pp vii-ix

List of figures

pp x-x

List of tables

pp xi-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

1 - Introduction: the weight of finance in European societies

pp 1-16

2 - Banking and industrialization: Rondo Cameron twenty years on

pp 17-36

Part I - FINANCIAL SECTOR AND ECONOMY

pp 37-38

3 - The domestic commercial banks and the City of London, 1870–1939

pp 39-62

4 - Banks and state in France from the 1880s to the 1930s: the impossible advance of the banks

pp 63-92

5 - An overview on the role of the large German banks up to 1914

pp 93-112

6 - Banks and economic development: comments

pp 113-118

Part II - FINANCIAL ELITES AND SOCIETY

pp 119-120

7 - Financial elites and British society, 1880–1950

pp 121-146

8 - Bankers in French society, 1860s–1960s

pp 147-160

9 - The banker in German society, 1890–1930

pp 161-186

10 - Financial elites and society: comments

pp 187-190

Part III - FINANCIAL INTERESTS AND POLITICS

pp 191-192

11 - The influence of the City over British economic policy, c.1880–1960

pp 193-218

12 - The political influence of bankers and financiers in France in the years, 1850–1960

pp 219-242

13 - Banks and banking in Germany after the First World War: strategies of defence

pp 243-262

14 - Banks and bankers in the German interwar depression

pp 263-282

15 - Finance and politics: comments

pp 283-290

Part IV - FINANCE AND FINANCIERS IN SMALLER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

pp 291-292

16 - Finance and financiers in Switzerland, 1880–1960

pp 293-316

17 - Finance and financiers in Belgium, 1880–1940

pp 317-336

18 - The political economy of banking: retail banking and corporate finance in Sweden, 1850–1939

pp 337-356

Part V - THE RISE OF EXTRA-EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CENTRES

pp 357-358

19 - Money and power: the shift from Great Britain to the United States.

pp 359-370

20 - The Yokohama Specie Bank during the period of the restored gold standard in Japan (January 1930–December 1931)

pp 371-404