Editorial Preface, Author's Preface, I. Banks and Banking in the Early Nineteenth Century, II. The Bank Restriction Period, 1797-1821, III. Monetary Theory of the Bank Restriction Period, IV. The First Years of Resumption, the Crisis of 1825, and the Bank Charter Act, 1833, V. The Horsley Palmer Experiment, and the Bank Charter Act, 1844, VI. The Currency and Banking Controversy, VII. The Trial of the Bank Charter Act, 1844-58, VIII. The Great Boom, 1858-73, IX. The Great Depression, 1873-96, X. The Last Years of the Gold Standard, 1897-1913, XI. Monetary Theory of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century, Appendix, Index