Contents

pp v-vi

List of Contributors

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-8

I - FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN EUROPE

pp 9-10

1 - Markets and Institutions in the Rise of London as a Financial Center in the Seventeenth Century

pp 11-33

2 - The Paris Bourse, 1724–1814: Experiments in Microstructure

pp 34-74

3 - No Exit: Notarial Bankruptcies and the Evolution of Financial Intermediation in Nineteenth Century Paris

pp 75-108

II - FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN THE AMERICAS

pp 109-110

4 - The Mortgage Market in Upper Canada: Window on a Pioneer Economy

pp 111-131

5 - Integration of U.S. Capital Markets: Southern Stock Markets and the Case of New Orleans, 1871–1913

pp 132-156

6 - The Transition from Building and Loan to Savings and Loan, 1890–1940

pp 157-206

III - OTHER FORMS OF INTERMEDIATION

pp 207-208

7 - Intermediaries in the U.S. Market for Technology, 1870–1920

pp 209-246

8 - Beyond Chinatown: Overseas Chinese Intermediaries on the Multiethnic North-American Pacific Coast in the Age of Financial Capital

pp 247-271

9 - Finance and Capital Accumulation in a Planned Economy: The Agricultural Surplus Hypothesis and Soviet Economic Development, 1928–1939

pp 272-287

10 - Was Adherence to the Gold Standard a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” during the Interwar Period?

pp 288-318

Afterword: About Lance Davis

pp 319-336

Index

pp 337-350