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City bankers, 1890-1914
The author analyses the banking community of London when the City was the undisputed financial centre of the world. Attention is paid to the social origins, education, careers, business interests and fortunes of this community's members.
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Shaping Globalization: London's Merchant Bankers in the Early Nineteenth Century
This article argues that entrepreneurs, not governments or markets, shaped globalization during the early nineteenth century. The article concentrates on the trading and financial activities of London merchant bankers, and in particular on the different diversification strategies they followed. Although most London merchant bankers remained cautious and did not diversify their operations either geographically or in the products they traded during this period, Huth & Co. established an impressive global network of trade and lending, dealing with over six thousand correspondents worldwide in a wide range of products. This firm shaped globalization well before the transport and communication revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
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Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the creation of a dynasty : the critical years 1806-1816
\"This history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordinary banking and financial empire - an empire that remained preeminent in Europe for more than a century. The book focuses on the critical years of Great Britain's war against Napoleon, when Rothschild became in effect Britain's banker and paymaster on the Continent, contributing to Wellington's defeat of Napoleon and consolidating the basis of the Rothschild financial dynasty. Although the basic outline of Rothschild's remarkable rise in the world of European high finance is well known, the details of how this actually took place, at the transaction-by-transaction level, have never before been studied. On the basis of archival examination of all of Rothschild's extant financial records, Herbert Kaplan is able to explain for the first time exactly how this transformation occurred.\"--Jacket.
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Japanese Bankers in the City of London
The globalisation of the present day world economy means that more and more people are experiencing different cultures through their work. Focusing on the real experiences of workers in Japanese transnational finance companies, this book not only throws light on this specific case, but at the same time raises timely questions and insights into the newly-emerging multicultural work experience worldwide. Japanese Bankers in the City of London reflects on contemporary discussions in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, of individual global movement and cultural interaction.
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The Rise of Merchant Banking
This is the first serious history of merchant banking, based on the archives of the leading houses and the records of their activities throughout the world. It combines scholarly insight with readability, and offers a totally new assessment of the origins of one of the most dynamic sectors of the City of London money market, of the British economy as a whole and of a major aspect of the growth of international business.
Dr Chapman has researched new material from the archives of Rothschilds, Barings, Kleinwort Benson and other leading houses together with a wide range of archives and published work in Europe, America and South Africa to trace the roots of British enterprise in financing international trade, exporting capital, floating companies, arbitrage, and other activities of the merchant banks.
While mindful of the subtleties of international financial connections, this book assumes no previous acquaintance with the jargon of banking, economics and sociology. It will therefore prove equally interesting to students of history, business and finance, and offers a 'good read' to anyone interested in the City of London and the international economy.
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The Pyrrhic Victory of Gentlemanly Capitalism: The Financial Elite of the City of London, 1945-90
Ironically, it was Britain's \"gentlemanly\" financial elite that carried through the changes that sustained the City of London's status as a world financial capital when other UK institutions faltered after WWII.
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Insiders, Outsiders and the Dynamics of Change in the City of London since 1900
Michie examines how London can remain a financial center of international importance, operating in an increasingly competitive environment, despite the decline of the UK economy and the disappearance of Empire, while at the same time be so poor at identifying and funding opportunities close to home.
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The Pyrrhic Victory of Gentlemanly Capitalism: The Financial Elite of the City of London, 1945-90. Part 2
(For Part I [1997], see abstract 98063450.) Chronicles the changing business practices & attitudes of 79 of London's (England) financial elite, 1945-1990, drawing on anecdotal interview data. The changing roles of company loyalty, professional courtesy, firm size & makeup, & women are discussed. The loss of a personal culture of trust among the London financial elite has inspired nostalgia for the days of \"gentlemanly capitalism.\" It is concluded that, while London is likely to survive as Europe's financial captial, it will do so under increasing foreign control. W. Mills
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