Saving the city : the great financial crisis of 1914 / Richard Roberts.
2013
HB3783 .R63 2013eb
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Title
Saving the city : the great financial crisis of 1914 / Richard Roberts.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191508271 (electronic bk.)
0191508276 (electronic bk.)
9780199646548 (hardback)
0199646546 (hardback)
0191508276 (electronic bk.)
9780199646548 (hardback)
0199646546 (hardback)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (320 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
40023193601
Call Number
HB3783 .R63 2013eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)868960285
Summary
In London, the world's foremost financial centre, the week before the outbreak of the First World War saw the breakdown of the markets, culminating with the closure for the first time ever of the London Stock Exchange on Friday 31 July. Outside the Bank of England a long anxious queue waited to change bank notes for gold sovereigns. Bankers believed that a run on the banks was underway, threatening the collapse of the banking system--all with the nation on the eve of war. This book tells the extraordinary, and largely unknown, story of this acute financial crisis that surged over London and aro.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Cover; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Note to the Reader; I. BREAKDOWN; 1. House Closed; 2. Bolt from the Blue; 3. Worst Days; II. CONTAINMENT; 4. Bankers' Scheme; 5. Treasury Views; 6. War Conference; 7. Reopening the Banks; III. REVIVAL; 8. Heroic Intervention; 9. Fixing the Foreign Exchanges; 10. House Open; IV. PERSPECTIVES; 11. Global Financial Crises; 12. The Unknown Financial Crisis; Notes; Archive Sources and References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Digital File Characteristics
data file
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 2, 2013).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Roberts, Richard. Saving the City : The Great Financial Crisis of 1914. Oxford : OUP Oxford, ©2013
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