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Book Condition: Used Near Fine
Jacket condition: Near Fine
ISBN: 0670211060 / 9780670211067
Seller: Twin City Antiquarian Books

United States
About Item: New York: The Viking Press, 1982 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright 1981 but first published in the U. S. in 1982. Quarter black cloth with blue-grey paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, tan endpapers, 336 pp, footnotes, index. Edges of boards slightly rubbed and faded, spine ends slightly rubbed, corners of a few leaves creased. DJ shows a hint of edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. From the introduction: "This is a book about the relationship between bankers and nations, particularly developing nations, from England in the fourteenth cenury to the United States in the nineteenth century to the many-coloured developing world of the 1980s. I try to show how banking grew up into the huge global organisations that we know today, and how they operate across frontiers in the contemporary world; but I do not attempt to cover the many complex activities of domestic banking and the economic theories that lie behind them. My interest is… Read More
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