Banking on global markets : Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the present / Christopher Kobrak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kobrak, Christopher.

Series:

Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deutsche Bank--History.

Deutsche Bank.

Banks and banking--Germany--History.

Banks and banking.

Banks and banking, Foreign--United States--History.

Banks and banking, Foreign.

History.

United States.

Germany.

Physical Description:

xx, 484 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Overview of the title and terrain

On golden chariots

Deutsche Bank's U.S. business 1870 to 1914

First steps

Deutsche Bank and American electrification

The Northern Pacific bankruptcy saga

The fallout

Other transportation and commercial investments

A taste for start-ups

Transitions

- Deutsche Bank and the U.S. during the "great disorder", 1914-1957

Personal, communication, and financial breakdowns

War supplies, espionage, and expropriation

Salvaging assets and business prospects in the war's immediate aftermath

Deutsche Bank and rebuilding cross-border financial flows

Deutsche bank and the collapse of the fragile world order

Second phoenix

Renewal and re-entry: 1957 to 2000

Divisive issues and the making of a new financial landscape

From Abs to Kopper and from joint ventures to branching

Bankers Trust acquisition

Postscript: Deutsche Bank in the U.S. and the future of multinational banking

Appendix I

Appendix II

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-475) and index.

ISBN:

9780521863254

0521863252

OCLC:

123539578

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