A Financial History of Western Europe

by Charles P. Kindleberger

Book Overview

Revised and updated throughout, this brilliant survey of European financial history from the earliest times to the present by internationally renowned scholar and author Charles P. Kindleberger offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of money in Western Europe, bimetallism and the emergence of the gold standard, the banking systems of the Continent and the British Isles, and overviews of foreign investment, regional and global financial integration,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195077385
• ISBN13: 9780195077384
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"