Saving the city : the great financial crisis of 1914 / Richard Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crises--Great Britain.

Financial crises.

Great Britain--Economic conditions--20th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In London, the world's foremost financial centre, the week before the outbreak of the First World War saw the breakdown of the markets, culminating with the closure for the first time ever of the London Stock Exchange on Friday 31 July. Outside the Bank of England a long anxious queue waited to change bank notes for gold sovereigns. Bankers believed that a run on the banks was underway, threatening the collapse of the banking system--all with the nation on the eve of war.This book tells the extraordinary, and largely unknown, story of this acute financial crisis that surged over London and aro

Contents:

Cover; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Note to the Reader; I. BREAKDOWN; 1. House Closed; 2. Bolt from the Blue; 3. Worst Days; II. CONTAINMENT; 4. Bankers' Scheme; 5. Treasury Views; 6. War Conference; 7. Reopening the Banks; III. REVIVAL; 8. Heroic Intervention; 9. Fixing the Foreign Exchanges; 10. House Open; IV. PERSPECTIVES; 11. Global Financial Crises; 12. The Unknown Financial Crisis; Notes; Archive Sources and References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 2, 2013).

ISBN:

0-19-100369-7

0-19-150827-6