Saving the City. The great financial crisis of 1914
Details:
- Author(s) Roberts, Richard
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 320pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Capital and money markets, etc
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
Notes:
Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History, 2013. Scholarly account charting the financial crisis in the City of London and beyond following the unanticipated outbreak of war in 1914. Has sections: 1] 'Breakdown' - 'House closed' / 'Bolt from the blue' / 'Worst days'; 2] 'Containment' - 'Bankers' scheme' / 'Treasury views' / 'War conference'; / 'Reopening the banks'; 3] 'Revival' - 'Heroic intervention' / 'Fixing the foreign exchanges' / 'House open'; 4] 'Perspectives' - 'Global financial Crisis' / 'The unknown financial crisis'