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Author: Maxwell Gaskin Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 9780415378512 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Within this comprehensive study, all aspects of Scottish banking are covered. The author examines branch banking, deposits and asset holding, as well as Scottish bank note issues, analyzing their significance to a wider British Monetary policy.
Author: Maxwell Gaskin Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 9780415378512 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Within this comprehensive study, all aspects of Scottish banking are covered. The author examines branch banking, deposits and asset holding, as well as Scottish bank note issues, analyzing their significance to a wider British Monetary policy.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Bank Acts Publisher: ISBN: Category : Banks and banking Languages : en Pages : 122
Author: Ray Perman Publisher: Birlinn Ltd ISBN: 178885229X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 512
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It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking, reliable insurance and smart investing. The face of the city changed too as money transformed it from medieval squalor to Georgian elegance. This is the story, not just of the institutions which were respected worldwide, but of the personalities too, such as the two hard-drinking Presbyterian ministers who founded the first actuarially-based pension fund; Sir Walter Scott, who faced financial ruin, but wrote his way out of it; the men who financed American railways and eastern rubber plantations with Scottish money; and Fred Goodwin, notorious CEO of RBS, who took the bank to be the biggest in the world, but crashed and burned in 2008.
Author: Michael Fry Publisher: Birlinn Ltd ISBN: 1788854322 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 674
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This new edition of Michael Fry's remarkable book charts the involvement of the Scots in the British empire from its earliest days to the end of the twentieth century. It is a tale of dramatic extremes and craggy characters and of a huge range of concerns - from education, evangelism and philanthropy to spying, swindling and drug running. Stories of Scottish regiments on the rampage, cannibalism and other atrocities are contrasted with the deeds of heroic pioneers such as David Livingstone and Mary Slessor. Above all it tells how the British empire came to be dominated and run by the Scots, and how it truly became a Scottish empire. As the empire transformed Scotland beyond recognition, so was the Empire shaped by the Scots - a remarkable achievement from the population of so small a country, which was itself neither nation nor fully province, neither fully colonizer nor fully colonized. Michael Fry's energetic and colourful account is one of the classics of modern Scottish history.
Author: Maxwell Gaskin
Author: Maxwell Gaskin
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Bank Acts
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Author: Ray Perman
Author: Neil Munro
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