Banking and Politics in the Age of Democratic Revolution

by Valmori, Niccolò

• ISBN13: 9781802077636
• ISBN10: 1802077634
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-04-13
• Publisher: Voltaire Foundation in association with Liverpool University Press

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

THE INVISIBLE HANDS: MERCHANTS AND BANKERS IN PARIS AND LONDON AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

1.1 Financial institutions and stock markets between Britain, France and The Netherlands

1.2 A fluid world: merchants and bankers in eighteenth-century Britain and France

1.3 'Improve your writing': becoming a banker in the eighteenth century. The case of Alexander Baring and his traineeship at the Dutch bank Hope & Co.

1.4 The internal life of an eighteenth-century bank: clerks and partners at Hoare & Co.

CHAPTER TWO

THE POLITICISATION OF FINANCE: THE ENGLISH FINANCIAL WORLD IN THE MIDST OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WARS, 1796-1800

2.1 Fighting over the public debt: Thomas Paine's The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance

2.2 The engagement of bankers during war: Francis Baring and Robert Barclay at the end of the eighteenth century

CHAPTER THREE

A HISTORY OF UNCHALLENGED DISTRUST: FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION AND BANKERS, 1789-1799

3.1 The debate on the creation of a French national bank: old suspects and new fears in 1789

3.2 A new role for financial interests in France? Pierre-Louis Roederer and the 'normalisation' of finance within French society

CHAPTER FOUR

BETWEEN RISK AND COLLABORATION: FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL ELITES DURING REVOLUTION AND WAR, 1792-1805

4.1 When war changes the rules: the unfortunate trade of James Bourdieu with France

4.2 Unravelling relations: bankers and politicians during the 1797 credit crisis

4.3 Old commercial practices in revolutionary times: the bank Hogguer & Co. and the evaluation of counterparties' risk

CHAPTER FIVE

INVESTING IN A NEW MARKET DURING THE AGE OF REVOLUTION: EUROPEAN BANKERS AND THE NEW WORLD, 1783-1803

5.1 Between expectations and failures: European investments in the US market in the last quarter of the eighteenth century

5.2 Bracing for the big leap: the houses of Baring and Hope at the eve of their investments in the United States of America

5.3 A fateful journey: Alexander Baring's discovery of the United States of America

CHAPTER SIX

EXTENDING NETWORKS IN WAR AND PEACE: CREDIT AND TRUST IN UNCERTAIN TIMES, 1801-1813

6.1 Diamonds in Paris: global trade and international finance during the Amiens peace, 1802-1803

6.2 Brokering in times of war: the role of Hope and Baring in the Louisiana Purchase

6.3 Raising money in times of war: the case of Ouvrard under the Napoleonic Empire

CHAPTER SEVEN

INTERLOCKING INTERESTS: BANKERS AND POLITICIANS IN ENGLAND, 1789-1810

7.1 A history of collaborative relations: Sir Francis Baring and the British government

7.2 Private banking and politics in times of war: the dialogue of interest between bankers and the Pitt Cabinet

CHAPTER EIGHT

CONSTRAINT AND AUTONOMY: FINANCE AND POLITICS FROM THE NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE TO THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA, 1800-1815

8.1 The impossible autonomy: the thorny relationship between the Banque de France and Napoleon, 1800-1806

8.2 Beyond repression: understanding the Paris financial market through police reports

8.3 The Dutch connection: investing in the Parisian market during the Napoleonic period

CONCLUSION

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