The world of private banking / / edited by Youssef Cassis and Philip Cottrell ; co-edited by Monika Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780904503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-351-88030-6; 1-315-23652-4; 1-282-34466-8; 9786612344664; 0-7546-9584-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Collana: Studies in banking and financial history
• Altri autori (Persone): CassisYoussef; CottrellP. L. <1944->
• Disciplina: 332.12309
• Soggetti: Private banks - History; Banks and banking - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Rise of the Rothschild's: the Family Firm as Multinational; 2 The Rothschild Archive; 3 Private Banks and the Onset of the Corporate Economy; 4 London's First 'Big Bang'? Institutional Change in the City, 1855-83; 5 Banking and Family Archives; 6 The Anglo-American Houses in the Nineteenth Century; 7 The Parisian 'Haute Banque' and the International Economy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; 8 Private Banks and International Finance in the Light of the Archives of Baring Brothers; 9 German Private Banks and German Industry, 1830-1938 10 Private Bankers and Italian Industrialisation; 11 Private Banks and Industry in the Light of the Archives of Bank Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie., Cologne; 12 Jewish Private Banks; 13 Protestant Banking; 14 Private Bankers and Philanthropy: the City of London, 1880's-1920's; 15 Hereditary Calling, Inherited Refinement: the Private Bankers of the City of London, 1914-86; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a full and authoritative account of the history of private banking, ; beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few European cities, notably Amsterdam and London. The study details the way in which private banking adapted to the age of the corporate economy from the 1870's to the 1930's, the decline during and after the Great Depression and the post-war renaissance. It concludes with an appraisal of the causes and consequences of the modern expansion of private banking: no longer the exclusive preserve of partnerships, the management of