Descrizione del libro:
The late Sir John Clapham's history of the Bank of England was written at the invitation of the authorities and was first published in 1944, to commemorate its 250th anniversary. It covers the bank's whole history from its foundation until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Contenuti:
Volume I: 1. The Antecedents and the first Three Years of the Bank; 2. The Bank and the Government, 1697–1764; 3. The Organization and Business of the Bank, 1694–1764; 4. The Bank and the Bankers, 1750–1797; 5. The Bank and the Government, 1764–1797; 6. The Organization and Business of the Bank, 1764–1797; 7. The Bank and the Crises of the Eighteenth Century; 8. The Proprietors of Bank Stock, 1694–1797; Volume II: 1. The Years of Suspended Cash Payments, 1797–1821; 2. From the Resumption of Cash Payment to the Charter Act of 1833; 3. Between two Charter Acts, 1833–1844; 4. The Decade following the Act of 1844 and the Crisis of 1847; 5. War, Gold and Crises, 1854–1866; 6. The New Environment, 1870–90; 7. From the Baring Crisis to the South African War, 1890 to 1899; 8. The Bank in the Early Twentieth Century Epilogue: the Bank as it is.
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