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1. Introduction / Alice Teichova, Ginette Kurgan-Van Hentenryk and Dieter Ziegler -- I. Origins of banking: from local to distant markets ; 2. The impact of Italian banking in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1300-1500 /e David Abulafia ; 3. The great German banking houses and international merchants, sixteenth to nineteenth century / Michael North ; 4. Public banks, trade and industry in southern Italy, seventeenth to eighteenth century / Paola Avallone ; 5. Financial circuits in Spain: merchants and bankers, 1700-1914 / Montserrat Garate Ojanguren -- The bank’s influence in leading industrial economies: 6. Banking and the evolution of the British economy, 1694-1878 / H. V. Bowen and P. L. Cottrell ; 7. Banks, economic development and capitalism in France / Eric Bussiere ; 8. The influence of banking on the rise and expansion of industrial capitalism in Germany / Dieter Ziegler ; 9. Banks and the rise of capitalism in Switzerland, fifteenth to twentieth century / Youssef Cassis ; 10. The influence of banking on the rise of capitalism in north-west Europe, fourteenth to nineteenth century / Herman Van Der Wee -- III. The banks’ impact on “follower” and “latecomer” economies: 11. The influence of banking on the development of capitalism in the Scandinavian countries / Hakan Lindgren ; 12. Banking and industry in central Europe, nineteenth to twentieth century / Alice Teichova ; 13. Banking and economic development in Spain / Gabriel Tortella ; 14. The role of banking in Italy's industrialization, nineteenth to twentieth century / Luigi De Rosa ; 15. The role of European banks in the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Elena Frangakis-Syrett ; 16. The role of banks in establishing a community of firms in Russia / Andrei Yudanov -- IV. The expansion of banking in the American and Asian economies: 17. Banking in North America, 1700-1900 / Larry Schweikart ; 18. Banking as class action: social and national struggles in the history of Canadian banking / Robert C. H. Sweeny ; 19. Nation building and the origins of banking in Latin America, 1850-1930 / Carlos Marichai ; 20. Banking, trade and the rise of capitalism in Argentina, 1850-1930 / Andres M. Regalsky ; 21. International banking in China, 1890-1913 / Shizuya Nishimura ; 22. The role of banking in Japan, 1882-1973 / Kanji Ishii.