This important two volume reference work comprises the most important articles and papers on the history of industrial finance and capital formation from the 18th century to World War I. It covers all the main regions of the world with special emphasis on the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and the United States.

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Volume I 1. Rondo Cameron (1965), ‘Theoretical Bases of a Comparative Study of the Role of Financial Institutions in the Early Stages of Industrialization’ 2. T.S. Ashton (1945), ‘The Bill of Exchange and Private Banks in Lancashire, 1790–1830’ 3. François Crouzet (1972), ‘Capital Formation in Great Britain During the Industrial Revolution’ 4. Phyllis Deane (1973), ‘The Role of Capital in the Industrial Revolution’ 5. Sidney Pollard (1964), ‘Fixed Capital in the Industrial Revolution in Britain’ 6. Stanley D. Chapman (1970), ‘Fixed Capital Formation in the British Cotton Industry, 1770–1815’ 7. Rondo Cameron (1967), ‘France, 1800–1870’ 8. Rondo Cameron (1967), ‘Belgium, 1800–1875’ 9. Richard H. Tilly (1986), ‘German Banking, 1850-1914: Development Assistance for the Strong’ 10. Hugh M. Neuberger and Houston H. Stokes (1974), ‘German Banks and German Growth 1883–1913: An Empirical View’ 11. Rainer Fremdling and Richard Tilly (1976), ‘German Banks, German Growth and Econometric History’ 12. Hugh M. Neuberger and Houston H. Stokes (1974), ‘German Banks and German Growth: A Reply’ 13. Richard Tilly (1982), ‘Mergers, External Growth, and Finance in the Development of Large-Scale Enterprises in Germany, 1880–1913’ Volume II 1. John G. Gurley and E.S. Shaw (1955), ‘Financial Aspects of Economic Development’ 2. Richard L. Rudolph (1972), ‘Austria, 1800–1914’ 3. Jon S. Cohen (1967), ‘Financing Industrialisatization in Italy, 1894–1914: the Partial Transformation of a Late Comer’ 4. Gabriel Tortella (1972), ‘Spain, 1829–1874’ 5. Olga Crisp (1976), ‘Banking in the Industrialisation of Tsarist Russia, 1860–1914’ 6. Lars G. Sandberg (1978), ‘Banking and Economic Growth in Sweden Before World War I’ 7. John R. Lampe (1975), ‘Finance and Pre-1914 Industrial Stirrings in Bulgaria and Serbia’ 8. Hugh T. Rockoff (1975), ‘Varieties of Banking and Regional Economic Development in the United States, 1840–1860’ 9. Lance Davis (1966), ‘The Capital Markets and Industrial Concentration: the U.S and the U.K, a Comparative Study’ 10. Richard Sylla (1982), ‘American Banks and the Finance of Industry, 1880–1920 : Perspectives on the Visible Hand’ 11. Ian M. Drummond (1990), ‘Banks and Banking in Canada and Australia’ 12. Kanji Ishii (1990), ‘Japan’ (from ‘International Banking, 1870–1914’) 13. Hugh M. Neuberger and Houston H. Stokes, ‘German Banking and Japanese Banking: A Comparative Analysis’ 14. Maria Bárbara Levy (1990), ‘The Banking System and Foreign Capital in Brazil’ 15. Frank H.H. King (1990), ‘Extra-Regional Banks and Investments in China’ 16. Rondo Cameron (1967), ‘Conclusion to "Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization"’ Name Index