Banking, trade and industry : Europe, America and Asia from the thirteenth to the twentieth century

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 Garate 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 Bussiere 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 Hakan 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 Andres M. Regalsky 21. International banking in China, 1890-1913 Shizuya Nishimura 22. The role of banking in Japan, 1859-1973 Kanji Ishii.