When European powers annexed parts of Asia, banking systems were an important part of that process. The essays in this edited collection are based on original r

This book sheds new light on the role played by European banks in the economic colonization of much of the globe. Based on previously unused archival material,

When European powers annexed parts of Asia, banking systems were an important part of that process. The essays in this edited collection are based on original r

For almost a hundred years from the 1860s, the City of London's overseas banks financed the global trade that lay at the core of the British Empire. Foremost am

In this wide-ranging study, Ghassan Moazzin sheds critical new light on the history of foreign banks in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China, a tim