European Banking Overseas

Amsterdam. 2002

Editors

Ton De Graaf

Joost Jonker

Jaap-Jan Mobron

This volume contains the papers presented at the colloquium “European Banking Overseas 19th – 20th Century” in June 1999. It discusses different aspects of European overseas banking: some of the articles also examine the state of affairs at the end of the 20th Century and possible future developments.

Table of contents

• A Short Story of ABN AMRO Bank in International Perspective (Jan Luiten van Zanden)
• The Heritage and Archives of ABN AMRO Bank (Ton de Graaf)
• National Banking: Strategies and Globalisation (Ulrich Ramm)
• Global Archives: The Practicalities of Caring and Using International Archives (Roger Nougaret)
• Reordering Space: British Bank Building Overseas 1900-1940 (Iain S. Black)
• Rescuing the Papers of International Division: The Experience of BCI (Francesca Pino, Michele D´Alessandro)
• The Relations between Sociéte Générale and the Belgian Authorities in Congo (1885-1960) (Erik Buyst)
• The Banco Nacional Ultramarino as an Agent for the Government in the Colonies (Jorge Estevas Anastácio)
• Between Banks and Governments: The Records of BIS (Piet Clement)
• Completing the Picture: Records of the National Staff of International Banks since the 1850s (Edwin Green, Sara Kinsey)
• Reshuffling Nationality and Ethnicity: the Ottoman Bank Staff from Empire to Republic (Edhem Eldem)
• Recruitment and Training of International Bank Staff 1930-1964 (Willem Korthals Altes)
• One World or many Worlds? Markets, Banks and Communications, 1850s-1990s (Ranald Michie)
• A History of International Financial Communications. The Netherlands, since the 1850s (Joke Mooij)
• International Archiving and New Technologies (Sergio Cardarelli)
• Overseas Banks at the End of Empire: Challenges and Responses (Geoffrey Jones)
• New Trends in International Finance: Shell Capital (Gabriel de Scheemaker)