The Origins of International Banking in Asia: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

by Toshio Suzuki and Ranald C. Michie

Without a means of crediting and debiting accounts worldwide and the non-physical transfer of funds, the rapid global economic integration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would have been impossible. It is the globalization of the banking system, much of which, particularly in Asia, had its roots in the nineteenth century, that helped facilitate increased human mobility, the exchange of commodities and manufactures, and the simplified...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199646325
• ISBN13: 9780199646326
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"