History of Financial Disasters, 1763-1995
Details:
- Author(s) Duckenfield, Mark
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2006
- Pages 3 vols
- Publisher Pickering & Chatto
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Capital and money markets, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Collection of documents mostly comprising published texts but including archives, pamphlets, book extracts, acts of parliament, scholarly articles, etc, touching on international financial crises at macro level and intended as an easy access resource. Arranged in three volumes. Documents date from 1760s to 1990s. The volumes cover: 1] 1763-1840s; 2]1850-1925; 3] 1929-95. Coverage includes London crisis of 1825; Railway Mania bubble 1847; Overend Gurney & Co crisis 1866; devaluation of sterling 1967; Black Wednesday 1992; European collapse 1931