Table of Contents

Preface. List of Tables. Abbreviations. Part 1: Financial Institutions and Economic Growth 1. Financial Institutions and Economic Growth. 2. The Mobilisation of Savings in England, 1820-1860. 3. The English Finance Companies of the 1860s 4. The Founding of the International Financial Society. 5. The Capital of the Finance Companies, 1863-1866. Part 2: The Boom of the 1860s and the English Finance Companies 6. The Boom of the 1860s and the English Finance Companies: An Introduction. 7. The Operations of the Finance Companies: Foreign Industrial and Commercial Flotations, 1863-1866. Appendix: The Founding of the Anglo-Austrian Bank 1863. 8. The Operations of the Finance Companies: The Financing of Railway Construction Abroad, 1863-1866. 9. The Operations of the Finance Companies: Foreign Government Loans, 1863-1866. 10. The Operations of the Finance Companies: Domestic Industrial and Commercial Flotations, 1863-1866. 11. The Operations of the Finance Companies: The Finance of Domestic Railway Construction, 1863-1866. 12. The Financial Boom of the 1860s, the crisis of 1866 and the Finance Companies 13. Liquidation, 1866-1880.