History of financial institutions : essays on the history of European finance, 1800-1950 / edited by Carmen Hofmann and Martin L. Müller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Gerald D. Feldman : an appreciation / Jeffrey Fear, Glasgow University -- Starting from scratch? : the beginnings of Banca Commerciale Italiana 1893-1894 / Peter Hertner, Marthin Luther University Halle Wittenberg -- Jewish financiers in the city of London : reality and rhetoric, 1830-1914. / Randal Michie, University of Durham -- The financial culture of the Habsburg monarchy at the end of the 19th century / Hubert Bonin, Science Po Bordeaux -- French banks and public opinion. :the public's negative perception of the French banking establishment (from the 1800s to the 1950s) -- Many a slip between cup and lip : initiating Austrian stabilisation, 1922-1923 / Phil Cottrell, University of Leicester -- Why were there no investment trusts in Germany? : an analysis of an anomaly in the german financial industry from 1870 to 1957 / Martin L. Müller, Deutsche Bank -- Comradery, the joys of work, and the struggle to improve performance Creditanstalt-Bankverein's corporate newspaper Gemeinschaft, 1939-1943 / Ulrike Zimmerl, Bank Austria, UniCredit -- A non-neutral, non- belligerent country : portugal during World War II from a financial viewpoint / Nuno Valério, Lisbon School of Economics and Management, ISEG.