Capitals of Capital

Capitals of Capital Cambridge University Press
978�0�521�84535�9 - Capitals of Capital - by Youssef Cassis
Table of Contents

List of tables			vii
Foreword			ix
Preface			xiii
	Introduction		1
1	The age of private bankers, 1780–1840		7
		The grandeur and decline of Amsterdam	9
		The rise of the City of London	15
		The revival of Paris	24
		The lesser centres	31
		Interactions and networks of relationships	37
2	The concentration of capital, 1840–1875		41
		The banking revolution	42
		The railway adventure	54
		Rivalry between London and Paris	60
		The rise and fall of the lesser centres	68
3	A globalised world, 1875–1914		74
		The globalisation of the world economy	75
		World financial capital: the City of London	83
		A brilliant second: Paris	101
		The rise of Berlin	108
		The rising star: New York	114
		Niches and specialisations	124
		Competition and cooperation	131
		The Belle Epoque of the bankers	135
4	Wars and depression, 1914–1945		143
		The Great War	144
		The roaring twenties	152
		The years of crisis	180
		The Second World War	193
5	Growth and regulation, 1945–1980		200
		The difficult return to convertibility	204
		The birth and development of the Euromarkets	219
		The dawn of globalisation	235
6	Globalisation and financial innovations, 1980–2005		242
		The new world economy	242
		The leading financial centres at the Dawn of the twenty-first Century	261
	Conclusion		279
Glossary			288
Notes			297
Bibliography			348
Index			368

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