A financial history of western Europe

Introduction -- The evolution of money in western Europe -- Bank money -- Bimetallism and the emergence of the gold standard -- English and Scottish banking -- French banking -- German banking -- Italian and Spanish banking -- Government finance -- Private finance : individuals and families -- Private finance :the corporation -- Foreign investment : Dutch, British, French, and German experience to 1914 -- Transfer cases -- Foreign lending : political and analytical aspects -- Financial crises -- War finance, reparations, war debts -- German postwar inflation -- The restoration of the pound to par -- Stabilization of the franc -- The 1929 depression -- The 1930s -- German finance in and after World War II -- Lend-lease, the British loan, the Marshall Plan -- European financial integration -- Europe in the world financial system.