Chapter 1: Beyond Banks: An Introduction Christiaan van Bochove, Juliette Levy -- Chapter 2: The Decline of a Great Financial Intermediary: Notaries in France, 1851-1934 Philip Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal -- Chapter 3: Financial Intermediation in Colonial 17th- and...

Chapter 1. Introduction, Matteo Pompermaier – Università degli studi di Brescia -- Chapter 2. Historical Social Network Analysis and Early Financial Exchanges -- Chapter 3. Formation and Sustainability of Financial Networks in Early Modern Europe -- Chapter 4. Married Women in the Rural...

1. Introduction: The Nature and Significance of Medieval Statistics -- 2. The Domesday Book(s): Income Before and After the Norman Conquest -- 3. Medieval Monastic Accounting Records: Potentials and Pitfalls for Statistical Analysis -- 4. Population Statistics -- 5. Agricultural Statistics -- 6....

Introduction -- Part I. Emerging Champion -- Chapter 1. Winning the Peace -- Chapter 2. British Trade Bank -- Chapter 3. Finance and Industry -- Chapter 4. Dash for Growth -- Part II. Merchant Adventurer -- Chapter 5. Russia -- Chapter 6. Turkey -- Chapter 7. Middle East -- Chapter 8....

Chapter 1: Behind the Scenes of the Louisiana Purchase -- Chapter 2: Setting Up the Finance for the Louisiana Purchase -- Chapter 3: “The Present Order of Things” in January 1803 -- Chapter 4: Baring & Hope Anticipate Financing the Louisiana Purchase -- Chapter 5: All The Players Were...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rome and the Papal State: Old Customs and the New Kingdom of Italy -- Chapter 3: Finance and Banking -- Chapter 4: Structural Elements of the Rome Stock Exchange: Regulations, Price Lists and Intermediaries -- Chapter 5: The Rome Stock Exchange and the...

This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the...

1.Introduction: Fair Price and Sufficient Profit -- 2.Victorian Pawnbrokers: Cancerous Worms of Ruin or the Poor Man’s Banker? -- 3.Moneylenders: Deeply Rooted Evil or Providers of Quick Cash? -- 4.Legitimate Bankers: Pawnbrokers and Moneylenders Join the Premier League -- 5.Small-loan...