Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Rise of the Rothschilds: the Family Firm as Multinational -- 2 The Rothschild Archive -- 3 Private Banks and the Onset of the Corporate Economy -- 4 London's First 'Big Bang'? Institutional Change in the City, 1855-83 -- 5 Banking and Family Archives -- 6 The Anglo-American Houses in the Nineteenth Century -- 7 The Parisian 'Haute Banque' and the International Economy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 8 Private Banks and International Finance in the Light of the Archives of Baring Brothers -- 9 German Private Banks and German Industry, 1830-1938 -- 10 Private Bankers and Italian Industrialisation -- 11 Private Banks and Industry in the Light of the Archives of Bank Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie., Cologne -- 12 Jewish Private Banks -- 13 Protestant Banking -- 14 Private Bankers and Philanthropy: the City of London, 1880s-1920s -- 15 Hereditary Calling, Inherited Refinement: the Private Bankers of the City of London, 1914-86 -- Bibliography -- Index.