'Establishment of the financial network' in T M Devine, C H Lee & G C Peden (eds), Transformation of Scotland. The economy since 1700

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Author(s) Lee, Clive H
Publication type Chapter
Year published 2005
Pages pp100-27
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Place Published Edinburgh

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Country England
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Provides an overview to 1880 with sections: 'Financial crisis of the late seventeenth century'; 'Establishment of the financial structure - the public banks'; 'The extension of the banking community' [ie provincial banks]; 'New financial institutions - insurance and investment'; 'Supply of capital to the financial institutions'; 'Capital and investment'; 'Finance and the Scottish economy'