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Origins of international banking in Asia : the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Shizuya Nishimura, Toshio Suzuki, and Ranald Michie.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banks and banking--Asia--History.
- Banks and banking.
- Banks and banking, International--History.
- Banks and banking, International.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume brings together leading business and banking historians to examine the role and development of banks in Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries. It discusses both the overseas operations of European banks and the development of Asian (notably Japanese and Hong Kong) banks.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; The Contributors; Introduction; 1. The City of London as a Centre for International Banking: The Asian Dimension in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 2. British International Banks in Asia, 1870-1914: An Introductory Essay; 3. The Rise and Decline of the Oriental Bank Corporation, 1842-84; 4. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 1870-1913; 5. French Banking in Hong Kong: From the 1860s to the 1950s; 6. The Russo-Chinese Bank (1896-1910): An International Bank in Russia and Asia
- 7. The Overseas Expansion of Japanese Banks, 1880-20068. The Activities of the Yokohama Specie Bank in the Foreign Trade Financing Operations for Raw Cotton before the First World War; 9. The Activities of Japanese Banks in Interwar Financial Centres: The Cases of the Yokohama Specie Bank's Offices in London and New York; 10. International Correspondent Networks: Asian and British Banks in the Twentieth Century; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 13, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-87633-6
- 0-19-164133-2
- 9786613717641
- OCLC:
- 922971163
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