Investment Banking in England 1856-1881 (RLE Banking & Finance)

Volume One

Phillip Cottrell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780415530200
• eBook ISBN: 9781136301469
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Economics

This and the following volume chart the history of financial institutions in England in the mid-late nineteenth century as well as examining the periods of boom and bust, their causes and effects. Using hitherto unpublished sources from the International Financial Society this book provides an unrivalled record of the development of the modern banking industry.

INVESTMENT BANKING IN ENGLAND
1856–1881

A Case Study of the International Financial
Society Volume I

P. L. COTTRELL

Volume 7

First published in 1985

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ISBN: 978-0-415-52086-7 (Set)
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P. L. Cottrell

Volume I

Copyright © 1985 P. L. Cottrell

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cottrell, P. L. (Philip Leonard), 1944-

Investment banking in England, 1856–1882.

(British economic history)

Bibliography: p.

1. International Financial Society—History—19th
century. 2. Investment banking—England—History—19th century. I. International Financial Society. II. Title.
III. Series.

HG5443.E5C68 1985 332.6'6 84–45997

ISBN 0-8240-6677-4

All volumes in this series are printed on acid-free,

250-year-life paper.

Printed in the United States of America

INVESTMENT BANKING IN ENGLAND 1856–1882:

CASE STUDY OF
THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SOCIETY

P. L. COTTRELL

Contents

Preface

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Part One

Financial Institutions and Economic Growth

Chapter 1 Financial Institutions and Economic Growth

Chapter 2 The Mobilisation of Savings in England, 1820–1860

Chapter 3 The English Finance Companies of the 1860s

Chapter 4 The Founding of the International Financial Society

Chapter 5 The Capital of the Finance Companies, 1863–1866

Part Two

The Boom of the 1860s and the English Finance Companies

Chapter 6 The Boom of the 1860s and the English Finance Companies: an Introduction

Chapter 7 The Operations of the Finance Companies: Foreign industrial and commercial flotations, 1863–1866

Appendix The Founding of the Anglo-Austrian Bank, 1863

Chapter 8 The Operations of the Finance Companies: the financing of Railway Construction abroad, 1863–1866

Chapter 9 The Operations of the Finance Companies: Foreign Government Loans, 1863–1866

Chapter 10 The Operations of the Finance Companies: Domestic Industrial and Commercial flotations, 1863–1866

Chapter 11 The Operations of the Finance Companies: the finance of domestic railway construction, 1863–1866

Chapter 12 The Financial Boom of the 1860s, the crisis of...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Volume I
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Original Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Tables
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Financial Institutions and Economic Growth
• Chapter 2 The Mobilisation of Savings in England, 1820-1860
• Chapter 3 The English Finance Companies of the 1860s
• Chapter 4 The Founding of the International Financial Society
• Chapter 5 The Capital of the Finance Companies, 1863–1866
• Chapter 6 The Boom of the 1860s and the English Finance Companies: an Introduction
• Chapter 7 The Operations of the Finance Companies: Foreign industrial and commercial flotations, 1863-1866
• Appendix: The Founding of the Anglo-Austrian Bank, 1863
• Chapter 8 The Operations of the Finance Companies: the financing of Railway Construction abroad, 1863-1866
• Chapter 9 The Operations of the Finance Companies: Foreign Government Loans, 1863-1866
• Chapter 10 The Operations of the Finance Companies: Domestic Industrial and Commercial flotations, 1863-1866
• Chapter 11 The Operations of the Finance Companies: the finance of domestic railway construction, 1863-1866
• Chapter 12 The Financial Boom of the 1860s, the crisis of 1866, and the Finance Companies
• Half Title
• Volume II
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Chapter13 Liquidation, 1866-1880
• Chapter14 The Depression, 1866 to 1869
• Chapter15 The boom of the early 1870s
• Chapter16 The End of an Era, 1873-77
• Chapter17 The End of an Era, 1873-77
• Chapter18 The International Financial Society, the Finance Companies, and the development of the English capital market
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY