Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword by Mario Draghi and Jaime Caruana -- Abbreviations Used in Text -- Introduction: The Making of a Non-National Currency -- 1. A Napoleonic Prelude -- 2. The Origins of the Committee of Governors -- 3. The Response to Global Monetary Turbulence -- 4. The Snake and Other Animals -- 5. Negotiating the European Monetary System -- 6. The Malaise of the 1980s -- 7. The Delors Committee and the Relaunching of Europe -- 8. Designing a Central Bank -- 9. The EMS Crises -- Conclusion: The Euro and the Legacy of the Committee of Governors -- Appendix A: Maastricht Treaty Text and Committee of Governors' Draft of the Statute of the European Monetary Institute -- Appendix B: Maastricht Treaty Text and Committee of Governors' Draft of the Statute of the European Central Bank -- Appendix C: Dramatis Personae -- Appendix D: Members of the Committee of Governors -- Appendix E: Committee for the Study of Economic and Monetary Union (Delors Committee), 1988- 1989 -- Appendix F: Chairmen of the Monetary Committee of the European Community, 1958- 1998 -- Appendix G: European Commission Presidents and Commissioners for Economics and Finance, 1958- -- Appendix H: Chronology -- Appendix I: Interest Rates and Fiscal Balance -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.