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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Youssef Cassis (, Professor of Contemporary Economic History, University of Grenoble II, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Politics) , Eric Bussière (, Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Paris-IV Sorbonne)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.720kg ISBN: 9780199269495ISBN 10: 0199269491 Pages: 382 Publication Date: 20 January 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Youssef Cassis: Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on London and Paris as International Financial Centres, 1890-2000 Part I: London and Paris in Long-Term Perspective, 1890-2000 2: Ranald Michie: A Financial Phoenix: The City of London in the Twentieth Century 3: Alain Plessis: When Paris Dreamed of Competing with the City... Part II: 'Golden Age', 1890-1914 4: Niall Ferguson: The City of London and British Imperialism: New Light on an Old Question 5: Marc Flandreau and François Gallice: Paris, London, and the International Money Market: Lessons from Paribas, 1885-1913 6: Youssef Cassis: London Banks and International Finance, 1890-1914 7: Samir Saul: New Issues, Syndicates, and the Paris Capital Market, 1890-1914 Part III: From Global Reach to Regional Withdrawal, 1914-58 8: Philip L. Cottrell: Established Connections and New Opportunities: London as a Financial Centre, 1914-58 9: Hubert Bonin: The Challenged Competitiveness of the Paris Capital Market, 1914-58 Part IV: The Road to Globalization, 1958-80 10: Catherine Schenk: Crisis and Opportunity: The Policy Environment of International Banking in the City of London, 1958-80 11: Olivier Feiertag: The International Opening up of the Paris Bourse: Debt-Economy Curbs and Market Dynamics 12: Mae Baker and Michael Collins: London as an International Banking Centre, 1958-80 13: Eric Bussière: French Banks and the Eurobonds Issue Market in the 1960s Part V: Internationalization and Globalization, 1980-2000 14: Richard Roberts: London as an International Financial Centre, 1980-2000: Global Powerhouse or Wimbledon EC2? 15: André Straus: The Future of Paris as an International Centre from the Perspective of European IntegrationReviewsThe editors have more skilfully directed this Anglo-French band to common issues and questions than editors of conference volumes normally do, and Cassis' nine-page introduction usefully poses an agenda of questions and a comparative framework to set the reader thinking. Business History `This book has a truly exciting set of fifteen chapters... This is a well-integrated volume that should be in the library of every economic historian who deals with international banking and finance in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. I read it with great absorption and delight.' Mira Wilkins, EH.NET Author InformationYoussef Cassis is Professor of Contemporary Economic History, University of Grenoble II, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of Big Business: The European Experience in the 20th Century (OUP, 1997), and co-editor of European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking Under Bretton Woods (OUP, 2002), with Stefano Battilossi. Eric Bussière is Jean Monnet Professor of European Construction at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is the author of Horace Finaly, Banquier (Paris, Fayard, 1996), and editor of Georges Pompidou et la Mutation Economique de l'Occident (Paris, PUF, 2003). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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