Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV’s France

At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the deman...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rowlands, Guy (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2015.
Colección:Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted.
Descripción Física:XVI, 265 p.
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781137381798