The Morgans - Private International Bankers, 1854–1913

This intricate and comprehensive history of the mechanisms of international finance, the waning of private banking houses and the evolution of commercial and investment banking, the risks and profits of high finance will interest historians of business, economics, the United States, and the modern world.

Summary

The House of Morgan personified economic power in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Carosso constructs an in-depth account of the evolution, operations, and management of the Morgan banks at London, New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, from the time Junius Spencer Morgan left Boston for London to the death of his son, John Pierpont Morgan.

Product details

• Authors: Vincent P. Carosso
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1987
• EAN: 9780674587298
• ISBN: 978-0-674-58729-8
• No. of pages: 920
• Dimensions: 244 mm x 165 mm x 50 mm
• Weight: 1488 g
• Illustrations: 12 halftones
• Series: Studies in Business History; Harvard Studies in Business History; Harvard Studies in Business Hi; Harvard Studies in Business History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries