Colonial and Imperial Banking History

Hubert Bonin is a researcher at the GREThA Research Institute, Bordeaux University, and at Sciences Po Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. Nuno Val é rio is Full Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

1.Issues about European colonial and imperial banking: Varieties of cultures, models and histories 2. Colonial banking, one model, two histories: Cuba and Puerto Rico before the independence 3.Foreign direct investment in imperial Brazil and the activities of British and Portuguese banks. Colonial banking versus imperial banking? 4. Dutch colonial and imperial banking: Different ways of entry and exit 5. Strategies for market monopolisation: The Register of Co-operation and the ‘imperial banks’ in South Africa in the 1920s-1980s 6. From colonial and imperial banking to independent banking: A dialectical perspective of the evolution of Angola . Imperial Banking in French North Africa: Banque de l’Algérie et de la Tunisie .Parisian banking networks and the empire: Measuring the influence of "imperial" bankers 9. Conclusive remarks Colonial Banking, Imperial Banking, Overseas Banking, Imperialist Banking: Convergences, Osmosis, and Differentiation