Money and Power

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. English Banks and Business Cycles, 1848–80

   • Michael Collins

   Pages 1-39

3. Credit, Morals and Sunspots: the Financial Boom of the 1860s and Trade Cycle Theory

   • P. L. Cottrell

   Pages 41-71

4. Structure and Performance in British Banking, 1870–1939

   • Forrest Capie

   Pages 73-102

5. The Mechanism of the Supply of Money in the United Kingdom, 1873–1913

   • Shizuya Nishimura

   Pages 103-129

6. Keynes as a Monetary Historian

   • D. E. Moggridge

   Pages 131-153

7. A Merchant Bank at War: The House of Morgan 1914–18

   • Kathleen Burk

   Pages 155-172

8. Creating the Myth of Consensus: Public Opinion and Britain’s Return to the Gold Standard in 1925

   • R. Boyce

   Pages 173-197

9. A Shaft of Baltic Pine: Negotiating the Anglo-American-Canadian Trade Agreements of 1938

   • Ian Drummond, Norman Hillmer

   Pages 199-225

10. Cheap Money and Debt Management in Britain, 1932–51

    • Susan Howson

    Pages 227-289

11. Back Matter

    Pages 291-306

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A collection of essays written by students, colleagues and friends of Professor Leslie Pressnell in honour of his 65th birthday and his scholarship in the field of financial history. The subjects range from monetary history, inter-relations of finance and financial problems for politicians.

• bank
• banking
• business
• business cycle
• finance
• John Maynard Keynes
• Keynes
• management
• money
• performance
• science and technology
• trade

• University of Leicester, UK

  P. L. Cottrell

• University of Toronto, Canada

  D. E. Moggridge

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