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.
1. Introduction Chronologies PART I: MONEY 2. The Evolution of Money in Western Europe 3. Bank Money 4. Bimetallism and the Emergence of the Gold Standard PART II: BANKING Introduction to Part II 5. English and Scottish Banking 6. French Banking 7. German Banking 8. Italian and Spanish Banking PART III: FINANCE Introduction to Part Three 9. Government Finance 10. Private Finance, Individuals and Families 11. Private Finance--The Corporation 12. Foreign Investment--Dutch, British, French and German Experience to 1914 13. Transfer Cases 14. Foreign Lending--Political and Analytical Aspects 15. Financial Crises PART IV: THE INTERWAR PERIOD Introduction to Part Four 16. War Finance, Reparations, War Debts 17. German Postwar Inflation 18. The Restoration of the Pound to Par 19. Stabilization of the Franc 20. The 1929 Depression 21. The 1930's PART V: AFTER WORLD WAR II Introduction to Part Five 22. German Finance In and After World War II 23. Lend-Lease, the British Loan, the Marshall Plan 24. European Financial Integration 25. Europe in the World Financial System Glossary Conversion Tables--Equivalences l3½
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