Crisis and renewal in twentieth century banking : exploring the history and archives of banking at times of political and social stress / edited by Edwin Green, John Lampe, and Franjo Štiblar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Edwin.

Lampe, John R.

Štiblar, Franjo.

European Association for Banking History.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking--Europe--History--Congresses.

Banks and banking.

Financial institutions--Europe--History--Congresses.

Financial institutions.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Crisis and renewal in 20th century banking

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

Part I War and Revolution: Russian and Foreign Banks, 1917-30

1 A Private Banking House at War: Barings and Russia, 1914-17 / John Orbell 3

2 Russian Banks During the First World War and the Revolution / Sergei Lebedev 16

3 Witnesses to Revolution: The Archives of Foreign Banks in Russia / Catherine Potier 34

Part II Depression and Political Turmoil in Central Europe

4 Under Western Eyes: Foreign Banks' Archives Relating to Central and Eastern Europe Between the Wars / Edwin Green 53

5 Croatian Banking During the 1926-36 Depression / Ivo Bicanic, Zeljko Ivankovic 64

Part III Banking in Civil War and Its Aftermath

6 The Republic Besieged? British Banks and the Spanish Civil War: 1936-39 / Tom Buchanan 87

7 Spanish Banking After the Civil War: A Halting Reconstruction Under Fascism / Gabriel Tortella, Jose L. Garcia-Ruiz 104

8 The Transition After the Civil War in Greece / Konstantinos Kostis 129

Part IV Post-war Reconstruction: The German and Far Eastern Experience

9 The Transformation and Reconstruction of Banking in Germany, 1945-57 / Martin L. Muller 157

10 New Political Realities and the Post-war Re-establishment of Foreign Banks in East and South-East Asia / Frank H. H. King 174

Part V Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century Banking: The Slovenian Experience

11 A Comparison of Banking Crises in Slovenia in the 1930s and 1990s / Franjo Stiblar 201

12 Slovenian Banking in Transition / Ivan Ribnikar 223

Part VI Rupture and Reconnections

13 South-eastern European Banks and Western Banking: Twentieth Century Connections and Crises / John R. Lampe 241

14 Reconstructing National Identities: The Banknotes of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s / Virginia Hewitt, Tim Unwin 254.

Notes:

Proceedings of the 12th annual conference of the European Association for Banking History held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in May 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754633586

OCLC:

52602790