Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean
Farnham. 2012
Editors
John A. Consiglio
Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva
Gabriel Tortella
Iain L. Fraser
Monika Pohle Fraser
This volume presents a panoramic picture of the many national and international trends and developments, factors, customs, and events that have characterised banking in the Mediterranean area over the past two centuries. During this period banking in the Mediterranean evolved distinct characteristics, several going well beyond the restricted realities of colonial relations. The range of issues covered by the book is extensive and includes both national banking evolution and pan-regional topics. The volume offers an invaluable insight towards a wider and more detailed understanding of the roles of banking and finance in Mediterranean economic history. Seen in a context of what has hitherto been something of a historical vacuum in terms of the coverage of much writing on European banking and financial history, and the importance given to the Mediterranean region’s banking history in its own right, this is an innovative book that both contributes towards our knowledge the subject, and establishes a pattern for further work in this important area of European economic history.
Table of contents
- A Small, Open Mediterranean Economy – Then and Now Address (Michael C. Bonello)
- Malta’s Banking History Overview and Observations (John A. Consiglio)
- Outlines of Malta’s Numismatic History (Joseph C. Sammut K.M.)
- The Mediterranean Banking Systems: Convergence or Path Dependence? (Massimiliano Affinito and Riccardo De Bonis)
- Stability against All Odds: The Imperial Ottoman Bank, 1875-1914 (Edhem Eldem)
- Non-bank Financial Corporate Start-ups, 1830–1909: A Note on Greek Banking History (Ioanna Sapho Pepelasis)
- Diversity in Banking Systems: France, Italy and Spain, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Juan Carlos Maixé-Altés)
- Banking Expansions, Success and Failure in the British Mediterranean: The Ionian Bank, 1840s–1920s Alexandros Apostolides and Athanasios Gekas)
- National States and Central Banks in the Mediterranean World in the Interwar Period (Nuno Valério)
- Central Banking in the Iberian Peninsula: A Comparison (Pablo Martín-Aceña)
- A Mediterranean Nineteenth Century: Economic Dynamics of the Mediterranean Area during the First Two-Thirds of the Century (Gérard Chastagnaret)
- Second-rate Imperialism: The Banque d’Etat du Maroc, Viewed from the Archives of the Bank of Spain (Maria Teresa Tortella and Gabriel Tortella)
- How French Banking Archives Document Mediterranean History (c. 1850–1960) (Catherine Dardignac and Roger Nougaret)
- The Historical Archives of the Banco di Napoli: A Primary Resource for Social and Economic History in a Mediterranean View (Paola Avallone and Giovanni Lombardi)