The World of Private Banking

Youssef Cassis is from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Philip Cottrell is from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Leicester with Monika Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser

Contents: Introduction; The rise of the Rothschilds: the family firm as multinational, Niall Ferguson; The Rothschild archive, Victor Gray with Melanie Asprey; Private banks and the onset of the corporate economy, Youssef Cassis; London's first 'big bang'? Institutional change in the City, 1855-83, Philip L. Cottrell; Banking and family archives, Fiona Maccoll; The Anglo-American houses in the 19th century, Edwin J. Perkins; The Parisian 'haute banque' and the international economy in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Alain Plessis; Private banks and international finance in the light of the archives of Baring Brothers, John Orbell; German private banks and German industry, 1830-1938, Dieter Ziegler; Private bankers and Italian industrialisation, Luciano Segreto; Private banks and industry in the light of the archives of Bank Sal. Oppenheim Jr & Cie, Cologne, Gabriele Teichmann; Jewish private banks, Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk; Protestant banking, Martin Körner; Private bankers and philanthropy: the City of London, 1880s-1920s, Pat Thane; Hereditary calling, inherited refinement: the private bankers of the City of London, 1914-1986, David Kynaston; Bibliography; Index.