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    80th Anniversary Edition – A stunning gift book containing everything you need to know about the Moomins

    Celebrate 80 years of the Moomins with this showstopping gift book! The World of Moominvalley is the ultimate guide for any Moomin fan, young and old. Now updated with special content to celebrate the anniversary! A luxury edition, with a gold foil cover, that you can cherish for years to come.Step into the magical world of Moominvalley with this beautiful one-of-a-kind book filled with ... Read more

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  • The World of Private Banking

    Series series Studies in Banking and Financial History
    This is a full and authoritative account of the history of private banking, beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few European cities, notably Amsterdam and London. These banks were usually partnerships, a form of organization which persisted as the role of private banking changed in response to the political and economic transformations of ... Read more

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  • Rebuilding the Financial System in Central and Eastern Europe, 1918–1994

    Edited by Philip L. Cottrell ...
    Series series Studies in Banking and Financial History
    This collection of essays, written by former bankers, practising central bankers, government advisers and historians, celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the National Bank of Hungary. From a range of view points, the contributions consider the monetary and financial history of the past century and, in particular, explore possible parallelisms between experiences of the collapse of the ... Read more

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  • Death, Burial, and the Afterlife

    Dublin Death Studies

    Series Book 780 - Carysfort Press Ltd.
    The essays incorporated into this volume share an ambitious interest in investigating death as an individual, social and metaphorical phenomenon that may be exemplified by themes involving burial rituals, identity, and commemoration. The disciplines represented are as diverse as art history, classics, history, music, languages and literatures, and the approaches taken reflect various aspects of ... Read more

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  • Centres and Peripheries in Banking

    The Historical Development of Financial Markets

    Series series Studies in Banking and Financial History
    This volume presents a broad investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. Focusing on the historical development of financial markets, from their emergence in the early modern period to today's global financial and capital markets, the chapters investigate how local, national and international relationships have affected and helped shape the banking industry ... Read more

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  • East Meets West - Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire

    Series series Studies in Banking and Financial History
    Bringing together cultural, economic and social historians from across Europe and beyond, this volume offers a consideration from a number of perspectives of the principal forces that further integrated the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe during the first century of industrialisation. The essays not only review and analyse the commercial, financial and monetary factors, negative as well as ... Read more

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    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
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    Edited by Charles P. Kindleberger ...
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    First Published in 2005. This volume offers an extended original series of essays in the field of financial history, assembled from lectures, articles for Festschriften and symposia, commissioned articles, and a few papers for the normal run of periodicals, including one or two obscure ones. They form a complement to the author’s previous work Financial History of Western Europe (1984). ... Read more

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  • A Financial History of Western Europe

    Series series Economic History
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  • Manias, Panics, and Crashes

    A History of Financial Crises

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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