A Financial History of Western Europe (Second Edition) - Softcover

Kindleberger, Charles P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195077385 ISBN 13: 9780195077384

Publisher: Oxford University Press USA, 1993

Synopsis

Revised and updated throughout, this brilliant survey of European financial history from the earliest times to the present by internationally renowned scholar and author Charles P. Kindleberger offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of money in Western Europe, bimetallism and the emergence of the gold standard, the banking systems of the Continent and the British Isles, and overviews of foreign investment, regional and global financial integration, and private and public finance in Western Europe. The new edition features expanded coverage of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and important new material on recent developments in European monetary integration.

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Review:

On the first edition:"an astonishing achievement ... a vast range of topics ... written with clarity, subtlety, and derived from sources in French, English, and German ... a book anyone even pretending to a knowledge of monetary history must have"Journal of Economic History

will end up on many undergraduate reading lists, whilst its extensive bibliography will prove a boon to [those] working their way into the field (Economic History Review)

splendid book (World Economy)

About the Author:

Charles P. Kindleberger has written many influential books in economics over the past 60 years, the most recent of which are: Economic Laws and Economic History (1990), Historical Economics: Art of Science? (1990), and Mariners and Markets (1992).

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0195077385
• ISBN 13: 9780195077384
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 544