Financial History

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Inherently interdisciplinary, financial history offers new ways to approach crucial questions of broad import to scholars and policymakers. It stands as an independent method of inquiry into some of our most intractable problems: economic growth, financial concentration, health care, long-term care, monetary policy, political development, social welfare programmes, even foreign policy and the very nature of democracy itself. This innovative series provides a platform for works that apply financial theory to questions of perennial historiographical interest, works that use financial history to illuminate current public policy debates, country studies, industry studies, company histories, biographies of financiers, market studies, as well as studies in corporate finance and governance, public finance and combinations thereof.

Send us a Proposal
Manuscripts should be in the range of 80,000 to 100,000 words. Proposals should be eight to ten pages in length and should include a brief overview of the relevant scholarship in the field, the contribution which your work will make to the field, a breakdown of the contents by chapter, an account of the number and type of illustrations, the length, competing books, and the intended audience. Proposals should include a sample chapter.

Send your proposals to: Robert E Wright, Rudy and Marilyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy, Division of Social Sciences, Augustana College, 2001 South Summit Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57197 USA or email Robert.Wright@augie.edu. If the proposal is considered promising then the Series Editor will invite you to submit a sample chapter for full evaluation.

For detailed information on submitting a proposal, including an example of a successful submission, please click here.

Readership

Economists who specialize in finance or economic growth, economic historians, and historians of banking, business, corporations, economic growth, economic thought, finance and insurance will constitute the core audience, but all historians, economists, public policymakers and political scientists should find the books in this series of general interest.

Editorial board

Robert E Wright holds the Rudy and Marilyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College. Wright has authored or co-authored various books, including most recently One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe (2008). He is also the editor of Pickering & Chatto’s The History of Corporate Finance (2003), The History of Corporate Governance (2004) and The US National Debt (2005). Though an historian by training, Wright has published numerous articles for economic and business journals like the American Economic Review, Barron's and FT Banker.

Published titles

• Argentina's Parallel Currency : The Economy of the Poor
• Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance
• Financial Markets and the Banking Sector : Roles and Responsibilities in a Global World
• Gambling on the American Dream : Atlantic City and the Casino Era
• Government Debts and Financial Markets in Europe
• Guilty Money : The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815–1914
• The Political Economy of Sentiment : Paper Credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in Early Republic Boston, 1780–1820
• The Revenue Imperative : The Union's Financial Policies during the American Civil War
• The Rise and Fall of the American System : Nationalism and the Development of the American Economy, 1790–1837
• Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America : The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852
• Towards Modern Public Finance
• Virginia and the Panic of 1819 : The First Great Depression and the Commonwealth

Forthcoming titles

• Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance

  Bruce Yenawine
  Editor: Michele Costello

  (June 2010)
• Camille Gutt and Postwar International Finance

  Jean F Crombois

  (June 2011)
• Convergence and Divergence of National Financial Systems: Evidence from the Gold Standards, 1871–1971

  Editors: Patrice Baubeau and Anders Ögren

  (April 2010)
• The Development of International Insurance

  Editor: Robin Pearson

  (July 2010)
• The Development of the Art Market in England: Money as Muse, 1730–1900

  Thomas M Bayer and John R Page

  (April 2011)
• Federal Banking in Brazil: Policies and Competitive Advantages

  Kurt E von Mettenheim

  (July 2010)

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• Economic and Financial History catalogue

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