Author : Charles Poor Kindleberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis A Financial History of Western Europe by : Charles Poor Kindleberger
Download or read book A Financial History of Western Europe written by Charles Poor Kindleberger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 theemergence 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 seventeenthcenturies and important new material on recent developments in European monetary integration.