Financial History Review

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Volume 5, issue 2, 1998

Abstracts pp. 111-114

Anonymous

The financial history of the Anatolian and Baghdad railways, 1889–1914 pp. 115-137

B. Barth and J. C. Whitehouse

Anglo-New Zealand financial relations, 1945–611 pp. 139-157

John Singleton

The West German central bank and the construction of an international monetary system during the 1950s1 pp. 159-178

Monika Dickhaus

Under-performance, short-termism and corporate governance: the City and the British Motor Corporation, 1952–671 pp. 179-201

Sue Bowden and Josephine Maltby

Stuart Muirhead, Crisis Banking in the East. The History of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, 1853–93 (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996. 379 pp. £49·50) pp. 229-230

Boris Barth

Ulf Olsson, At the Centre of Development. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and its Predecessors, 1856–1996 (Stockholm: Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, 1997. 320 pp.) pp. 230-232

Per H. Hansen

David Kynaston, The City of London, volume II: Golden Years 1890–1914 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1995. 678 pp. £25) pp. 232-232

Anthony Howe

Jonathan Story and Ingo Walter, Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe: The Battle of the Systems, European Policy Research Unit Series (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. xiv + 337 pp. £45) pp. 233-235

Sidney Pollard

Harald Wixforth, Banken und Schwerindustrie in der Weimarer Republik (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 1995. 549 pp. DM 98) pp. 233-233

Peter Hayes

Tamin Bayoumi, Financial Integration and Real Activity, Studies in Macroeconomics (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. xii + 157 pp. £25) pp. 235-236

Helge Berger

Volume 5, issue 1, 1998

Abstracts pp. 1-4

Anonymous

The invisible stabiliser: asset arbitrage and the international monetary system since 17001 pp. 5-26

R. C. Michie

Bills of exchange as money: sources of monetary supply during the industrialisation of Catalonia, 1844–741 pp. 27-47

Xavier Cuadras-Morató and Joan Rosés

Banking in National Socialist Germany, 1933–39 pp. 49-62

Christopher Kopper

The Netherlands postwar monetary reform, 1945–521 pp. 63-85

W. F. V. Vanthoor

G. Kurgan-van Hentenryk, Gouverner la Générale de Belgique, essai de biographie collective (Paris/Brussels: De Boeck Université, 1996. 266 pp. 680 BEF/125 FRF) pp. 99-101

Joost Jonker

Boris Barth, Die deutsche Hochfinanz und die Imperialismen. Banken und Außenpolitik vor 1914 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1995. 505 pp. DM 136) pp. 101-102

Richard Tilly

Per H. Hansen, På glidebanen til den bitre ende. Dansk bankvaesen i krise 1920–1933 [On the Slippery Road to the Bitter End. Danish Banks in Crisis, 1920–1933] (Odense: Odense universitetsforlag, 1996. 496 pp.) pp. 103-104

Ulf Olsson

Barry Eichengreen (ed.), Europe's Post-war Recovery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ix + 357 pp. £35/$49.95) pp. 104-106

Peter Howlett

Bart van Ark and Nicholas Craft (eds), Quntitative Aspects of Post-War European Economic Growth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxii + 442. £45) pp. 106-107

Harald Wixforth

Volume 4, issue 2, 1997

Abstracts pp. 111-115

Anonymous

Finance and industrial development: evolution to market control. Part II: Japan and Germany1 pp. 117-138

William Lazonick and Mary O'sullivan

Banks and industry in Italy, 1911–36: new evidence using the interlocking directorates technique1 pp. 139-159

Michelangelo Vasta and Alberto Baccini

Competition and collusion in the finance sector in the postwar period1 pp. 161-179

Sue Bowden

Monetary institutions in newly independent countries: the experience of Malaya, Ghana and Nigeria in the 1950s1 pp. 181-198

Catherine Schenk

Michael North (ed.), Von Aktie bis Zoll: Ein historisches Lexikon des Geldes (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1995. 467 pp. [25 ill., 17 maps and tables] DM68) pp. 223-224

Sidney Pollard

John Chown, A History of Money from AD800 (London/New York: Routledge, 1994. ix + 306 pp. £45.00 hbk, £15.99 pbk) pp. 224-225

Stuart Jenks

M. M. G. Fase, G. D. Feldman and M. Pohl (eds), How to Write the History of a Bank (Aldershot: Scolar Press for the European Association for Banking History, 1995. 187 pp. £40.00) pp. 225-227

Charles W. Munn

Youssef Cassis and Jakob Tanner (eds), Banques et crédit en Suisse/Banken und Kredit in der Schweiz (1850–1930) (Zürich: Chronos, 1993. 267 pp.) pp. 227-228

Rolf Walter

Youssef Cassis, Gerald D. Feldman and Ulf Olsson (eds), The Evolution of Financial Institutions and Markets in Twentieth-Century Europe (Aldershot: Scolar Press for the European Association for Banking History e.V., 1995. pp. 337. £49.50) pp. 228-231

Peter Eigner

G. Schild, Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks. American Economic and Political Postwar Planning in the Summer of 1944 (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1995. xiii + 254 pp. £32.00) pp. 231-233

Catherine R. Schenk

C. A. E. Goodhart, The Central Bank and the Financial System (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1995. 528 pp. £17.50) pp. 233-234

Kevin Dowd

Volume 4, issue 1, 1997

Abstracts pp. 1-5

Anonymous

Finance and industrial development. Part I: the United States and the United Kingdom1 pp. 7-29

William Lazonick and Mary O'Sullivan

The finance of municipal capital expenditure in England and Wales, 1870–19141 pp. 31-50

John F. Wilson

Banking ‘scandal’ in a British west African colony: the politics of the African Continental Bank crisis1 pp. 51-68

Chibuike Ugochukwu Uche

The Lawson boom: excessive depreciation versus financial liberalisation1 pp. 69-90

David Cobham

Michael North, Das Geld und seine Geschichte (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1994. 272 pp. DM 48) pp. 105-105

Heinrich Rüthing and Michael Brayley

Ron Chernow, The Warburgs (New York: Random House, 1993. xvii + 820 pp.) [German translation: Die Warburgs. Odyssee einer Familie (Berlin: Siedler, 1994. 995 pp. DM68)] pp. 106-108

Gabriele Teichmann

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research/Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii + 170 pp. $39·95/£30.00) pp. 108-110

Robert C. H. Sweeny

Volume 3, issue 2, 1996

Abstracts pp. 111-116

Anonymous

Financial institutions in nineteenth-century Italy. The rise of a banking system1 pp. 117-137

Alessandro Polsi

Between private responsibility and public duty. The origins of bank monitoring in the Netherlands, 1860–19301 pp. 139-152

Joost Jonker

British holdings of French war bonds: an aspect of Anglo-French relations during the 1920s1 pp. 153-174

Arthur Turner

‘Big business’ networks in three interwar economies: Austria, Greece and Sweden1 pp. 175-195

Margarita Dritsas, Peter Eigner and Jan Ottosson

Manfred Pohl and Sabine Freitag (eds), Handbook on the History of European Banks (London: Edward Elgar for the European Association for Banking History e.V., 1994. 1303 pp. £199.00) pp. 219-220

Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk

Michael Stürmer, Gabriele Teichmann and Wilhelm Treue, Striking the Balance. Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie.: A Family and a Bank (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994. 512 pp.) pp. 220-221

Caroline Fohlin

Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart, Stanley Fisher and Norbert Schnadt, The Future of Central Banking. The Tercentenary Symposium of the Bank of England (Cambridge: University Press, 1994. 362 pp. $49·95 / £35.00) pp. 221-223

Maurice Lévy-Leboyer

David Kynaston and Richard Roberts, The Bank of England. Money, Power and Influence (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995. x + 315 pp. £21·95) pp. 223-224

John Orbell

Guilio M. Gallarotti, The Anatomy of an International Monetary Regime: The Classical Gold Standard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. £37·50) pp. 224-225

Pierre Siklos

Charles Feinstein (ed.), Banking, Currency, and Finance in Europe Between the Wars (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. xviii + 536 pp. £48.00) pp. 226-227

Welf Werner

Carlos Marichal and Pedro Tedde de Lorca (eds), La formación de los bancos centrales en España y América Latina (siglos XIX–XX) (Madrid: Banco de España, 1994. 2 vols. 221 pp. + 168 pp.) pp. 227-229

Marcello Carmagnani

Hans Kernbauer, Währungspolitik in der Zwischenkriegszeit. Geschichte der oesterreichischen Nationalbank von 1923 bis 1938, Third Part, Volume 1 (Vienna: Österreichische Nationalbank, 1991. 489 pp.) pp. 229-231

Alice Teichova

Hermannus Pfeiffer, Macht der Banken. Die personellen Verflechtungen der Commerzbank, der Deutschen Bank und der Dresdner Bank mit Unternehmen/The Power of the Banks. The Personal Linkages of the Commerzbank, the Deutsche Bank and the Dresdner Bank with Non-bank Corporations (Frankfurt-a.-Main: Campus, 1993. 463 pp. DM 78) pp. 231-233

Harald Wixforth

AB Asesores, Views on a Decade: The Spanish Economy and Financial System, 1984–1994 (Madrid: AB Asesores, 1994. 257 pp.) pp. 233-234

Joan Rosés

Volume 3, issue 1, 1996

Abstracts pp. 1-5

Anonymous

The Fielden fortune. The finances of Lancashire's most successful ante-bellum manufacturing family1 pp. 7-28

Stanley Chapman

Understanding the development of the German Kreditbanken, 1850–1914: an approach from the economics of information1 pp. 29-47

Marco Da Rin

A comparison of the stability and efficiency of the Canadian and American banking systems, 1870–19251 pp. 49-68

Michael Bordo, Hugh Rockoff and Angela Redish

The Bank of England and industrial intervention in interwar Britain1 pp. 69-86

W. R. Garside and J. I. Greaves

Edwin S. Hunt, The Medieval Super-companies. A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. x + 291 PP. £35/ $59·95) pp. 101-102

Guiseppe Felloni

Lynne Pierson Doti and Larry Schweikart, California Bankers, 1848–1993 (Needham Heights, Mass.: Ginn Press, 1994) pp. 103-104

Hugh Rockoff

Dolores L. Augustine, Patricians and Parvenus: Wealth and High Society in Wilhelmine Germany (Oxford/Providence: Berg, 1994. xii + 303 pp. £4·95) pp. 104-105

W. D. Rubinstein

Alice Tekhova, Terry Gourvish and Ágnes Pogány (eds), Universal Banking in the Twentieth Century. Finance, Industry and the State in North and Central Europe (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994. xiv + 308 pp. £59·95) pp. 105-107

Mark Spoerer

Gerald D. Feldman, The Great Disorder. Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914–1924 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 1,011 pp. £75/$125) pp. 107-108

Albrecht Ritschl

Michael D. Bordo and Barry J. Eichengreen (eds), A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System: Lessons for International Monetary Reform (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xiii + 675 pp. £59·95/$75) pp. 108-109

Sylvia M. Schwaag