Finance and Empire. Sir Charles Addis, 1861-1945
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- Author(s) Dayer, Roberta A
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1988
- Pages 431pp; illus
- Publisher Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly biography of Sir Charles Stewart Addis, 1861-1945, international financier and policy maker 'who shaped history in two major areas - Far Eastern international relations and monetary policy'. He achieved this through his positions as a senior manager [in London] of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank and as a director of the Bank of England. Structured in three parts: 1] 'Development of a man and his career'; 2] 'Attempts at Anglo American Co-operation'; 3] 'A return to sterling'. See also the writer's 'Bankers and Diplomats in China, 1917-1925. The Anglo-American relationship, 1981, and 'Struggle for China. The Anglo American relationship, 1917-25, PhD, State University of New York, 1972