Realms of Silver

One Hundred Years of Banking in the East
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-37797-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 752 g

Reihe: Economic History

Originally published in 1954 this volume looks at the difficulties encountered by the founders of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China in seeking, a hundred years ago, to establish the awakening countries of the East, British standard of financial probity and commercial integrity and then goes on to relate how the Bank was able to foster trade and industry in the lands to which its establishment was extended and to co-operate in the reform of archaic systems of currency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mackenzie, Compton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by W. R. Cockburn Author’s Note 1. The East India Company 2. John Company’s Opposition 3. India 4. The Suez Canal 5. China 6. China; The Bank in Hong Kong 7. Burma 8. Japan 9. The Straits Settlements 10. Indonesia 11. The Philippines 12. The City of London in Victorian Times 13. J. H. Gwyther 14. The Bank Between 1890 and 1914 15. The Abandonment of the Silver Standard 16. Siam and Indo-China 17. The Silver Standard and Exchange Business in China 18. Economic Development in the East Before 1914 19. The First World War 20. Between the World Wars 21. The Great Depression 22. Shanghai in 1937 23. The Second World War in the East 24. The East Since 1945 Appendices Index