How to Write the History of a Bank
Aldershot. 1995
Editors
Martin M.G. Fase
Gerald D. Feldman
Manfred Pohl
The history of a bank is more than a chronicle of money-making; it should be both a personal history of shareholders, manager and employees, and a history of the organizations at the centre of national and international growth and recession. This volume comprehensively demonstrates the significance of banking history and its relations with social, political and economic history. Leading banking historians provide comments and practical advice on technical problems of research and writing, and discuss critically a variety of approaches they and their peers have used in their work. They bring years of experience and unrivalled expertise to bear on the complete spectrum of banking organizations, from individual institutions to central banks, and the relations between banking systems across international boundaries.
Table of contents
- From Latin Monetary Union to European Monetary Union (Wim F. Duisenberg)
- The Wreszynski Case and the Limits to the Tolerance – ‘Not intended for publications’ (Johan de Vries)
- The Historiography of Commercial Banking – Britain and Scandinavia (Forrest Capie)
- On the Writing of Banking History – a Scandinavian Perspective (Ulf Olsson)
- Comments on Writing the History of a Commercial Bank (Edwin Green)
- How to Write the History of a Bank – Belgium, Holland, Germany, Luxemburg, Switzerland (Richard Tilly)
- How to Write the History of a Commercial Bank (Josefine Stevens)
- Comment s’est Écrite l’Histoire Internationale de la Générale de Banque? (Isabelle Wybo-Wehrli)
- How to Write the History of a commercial Bank – the French Case (Maurice Lévy-Leboyer)
- Writing the History of Commercial Banks in Spain – Problems and Perspectives (Gabriel Tortella)
- Commercial (Universal) Banking in Central Europe – from Cisleithania to the Successor States (Alice Teichova)
- Central European Banking between 1850 and 1950 (Fritz Weber)
- Hungarian Banking – Research and History (Agnes Pogány)
- Comment Ecrire l’Histoire d’une Banque d’Epargne (Leen van Molle)