Introduction -- Origin and purposes of the second bank -- The second bank's branch network and the state banking system -- The second bank and the "exchanges" : conquering space -- The "production" of monetary stability -- The second bank's specie market operations -- Conclusion

1. Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- 2. Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- 3. Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- 4. Increasing revenue through administration change :...

1. Introduction -- 2. Origin and purposes of the Second Bank -- 3. The Second Bank's branch network and the state banking system -- 4. The Second Bank and the "exchanges" : conquering space -- 5. The "production" of monetary stability -- 6. The Second Bank's specie market operations -- 7....

1. Introduction -- 2. The Anglo-American assessments in a wider context -- 3. The Soviet Union and the West : the pre-war experience and international great power politics before World War II -- 4. From the guarantee to Poland to the Molotov-Ribbentropp pact -- 5. US pre-Barbarossa assessments...

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