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
We invite submissions from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author's biography and an anticipated submission date.

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
• Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance
• Camille Gutt and Postwar International Finance
• Convergence and Divergence of National Financial Systems : Evidence from the Gold Standards, 1871–1971
• The Development of International Insurance
• The Development of the Art Market in England : Money as Muse, 1730–1900
• Federal Banking in Brazil : Policies and Competitive Advantages
• Financial History 1–10
• 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
• Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City
• Towards Modern Public Finance : The American War with Mexico, 1846–1848
• Virginia and the Panic of 1819 : The First Great Depression and the Commonwealth

Forthcoming titles

• Money in the Pre-Industrial World: Bullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes

  Editor: John H Munro

  (June 2012)

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