TY - BOOK AU - Sylla,Richard Eugene AU - Tilly,Richard H AU - Tortella Casares,Gabriel ED - Cambridge University Press. TI - The state, the financial system, and economic modernization SN - 0521591236 AV - HG1725 .S72 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - Cambridge, U.K., New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Banks and banking KW - Government policy KW - History KW - Finance, Public KW - Capital market N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: comparative historical perspectives; / Richard Sylla, Richard Tilly, Gabriel Tortella; 2 Politics and banking in revolutionary and Napoleonic France; / Francois Crouzet; 3 Belgian banking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the Societe Generale and the Generale de Banque (1822-1997); / Herman van der Wee, Monique van der Wee-Verbreyt; 4 Banking liberalization in England and Wales, 1826-1844; / P. L. Cottrell, Lucy Newton; 5 Banking in Europe in the nineteenth century: the role of the central bank; / Forrest Capie; 6 Public policy, capital markets and the supply of industrial finance in nineteenth-century Germany; / Richard Tilly; 7 The role of banks and government in Spanish economic development, 1850-1935; / Gabriel Tortella; 8 Central banking and German-style mixed banking in Italy, 1893/5-1914: from coexistence to cooperation; / Peter Hertner; 9 State power and finance in Russia, 1802-1917: the Credit Office of the Finance Ministry and governmental control over credit institutions; / Boris Anan'ich; 10 The origins of banking in Argentina; / Roberto Cortes Conde; 11 Shaping the US financial system, 1690-1913: the dominant role of public finance; / Richard Sylla; 12 Cosmopolitan finance in the 1920s: New York's emergence as an international financial centre; / Mira Wilkins; Index ER -