This first title from a three-volume work tells the story of the City of London's 19th century ascent to its position as the world's leading financial centre. It details the rise of the merchant banks, the growth of the Stock Exchange, the internationalization of the money market, and the characters behind these developments, such as Nathan Rothschild or Joshua Bates, who consolidated the power of the Barings. It also features financial drama: the burning of the Royal Exchange in 1838; the fortunes made from South American guano; and the Baring Crisis of 1890, when the city's most respected...
This first title from a three-volume work tells the story of the City of London's 19th century ascent to its position as the world's leading financial...
`We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general election to pass magpie-like over these chapters ... The appeal to act is heartfelt' Financial Times Includes a new chapter, 'Moving Ahead?' Britain's private, fee-paying schools are institutions where children from affluent families have their privileges further entrenched through a high-quality, richly-resourced education. Engines of Privilege contends that, in a society that mouths the virtues of equality of opportunity, of fairness and of social cohesion, the educational apartheid separating private schools from our state...
`We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general election to pass magpie-like over these chapters ... The appeal to act is heartfelt' Financia...
