House of Baring in American Trade and Finance. English merchant bankers at work, 1763-1861
Details:
- Author(s) Hidy, Ralph W
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1949
- Pages 631pp; illus
- Publisher Harvard University Press
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
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Reprinted. Scholarly, detailed and dense account of Barings' connection with finance in the USA before the American Civil War based extensively on the archives of Baring Brothers held in the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa. A pioneering banking history by a US scholar. Deals equally with Anglo-US trade finance and issuance of US securities for government, states and railroad companies. Some coverage of Hope & Co, Glyn, Mills, Hallifax & Co, Frederick Huth & Co, Morrison, Cryder & Co, Overend, Gurney & Co, George Peabody & Co, N M Rothschild & Co