CfP: The Pan-European Crises of 1719-1720 (deadline 15 December)

Dear colleagues, We are please to call for 20-min papers to the following three-hour session at the 2018 Boston WEHC: The Pan-European Crises of 1719-1720: New Perspectives on the Nature of Financial Behaviour. Confirmed participants include Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire), Inger Leemans (Amsterdam) and Koji Yamamoto (Tokyo), to be chaired by Karel Davids. The full details of the panel...

The Origins of International Banking in Asia

  The Origins of International Banking in Asia. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Edited by Shizuya Nishimura, Toshio Suzuki, and Ranald C. Michie Without a means of crediting and debiting accounts worldwide and the non-physical transfer of funds, the rapid global economic integration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would have been impossible. It...