A financial history of Western Europe

Abstract

Introduction and Chronologies I: MONEY Evolution of Money in Western Europe Bank Money Bimettalism and the Emergence of the Gold Standard II: BANKING English and Scottish Banking French Banking German Banking Italian and Spanish Banking III: FINANCE Government Finance Private Finance, Individuals and Families Private Finance: The Corporation Foreign Investment: Dutch, British, French, and German Experience to 1914 Transfer Cases Foreign Lending: Political and Analytical Aspects Financial Crises IV: THE INTERWAR PERIOD War Finance, Reparations, War Debts German Postwar Inflation The Restoration of the Pound to the Par Stabilization of the Franc The 1929 Depression The 1930s V: AFTER WORLD WAR II German Finance in and after World War II Lend-Lease, the British Loan, the Marshall Plan European Financial Integration Europe in the World Financial System