The Lion Wakes. A modern history of HSBC
Details:
- Author(s) Roberts, Richard, & David Kynaston
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2015
- Pages 768pp; illus
- Publisher Profile Books
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History, 2015. Scholarly commissioned history dealing with the post 1980 history of the bank in three parts: 1980-92; 1992-2002; 2002-11; with a preliminary chapter dealing with the 1970s. Deals with the business as an international bank but with coverage of UK operations and in particular of its acquisition of Midland Bank Plc