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Teichova Alice (ed.), Kurgan-van hentenryk Ginette (ed.), Ziegler Dieter (ed.)Banking, trade and industry : Europe, America and Asia from the thirteenth to the  twentieth centuryCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997, 1 vol. (XV-427 p.).ISBN 978-0-521-57361-0Résumé : The theme of this volume is challenging both in its scale and in its scope. Its purpose is to take account of the state of research and writing on the symbiotic relationship between banking, trade and industry and the state during the rise and expansion of capitalism, and to compare and assess the results on order to widen current perspectives. Topics range from the origins of banking in the Middle Ages, through the influence of banks in leading industrial economics as well as in 'latecomer' economies, to the expansion of banking in America and Asia.The volume has been edited in connection with the session 'Banking, trade and industry in Europe, America and Asia (XIII-XX centuries)' at the 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Montreal, 1995.Alice Teichova is emeritus professor of economic history, University of East Anglia, honorary fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and senior research associate, London School of Economics and Political Science.Ginette Kurgavan Hentenryk is professor of history, Free University of BrusselsDieter Ziegler is reader in economic history, University of Bielefeld.Contents : Introduction, Alice Teichova, Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk and Diter ZieglerI. Origins of banking : from local to distant marketsThe impact of Italian banking in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1300-1500, David AbulafiaThe great German banking houses and international merchants, sixteenth to nineteenth century, Michael NorthPublic banks, trade and industry in southern Italy, seventeenth to eighteenth century, Paola AvalloneFinancial circuits in Spain : merchants and bankers, 1700-1914, Montserrat Gárate OjangurenII. The banks' influence in leading industrial economiesBanking and the evolution of the British economy, 1694-1878, H. V. Bowen and P. L. CottrellBanks, economic development and capitalism in France, Eric BussièreThe influence of banking on the rise and expansion of industrial capitalism in Germany, Dieter ZieglerBanks and the rise of capitalism in Switerland, fifteenth to twentieth century, Youssef CassisThe influence of banking on the rise of capitalism in north-west Europe, fourteenth to nineteenth century, Herman van der WeeIII. The banks' impact on 'follower' and 'latecomer' economiesThe influence of banking on the development of capitalism in the Scandinavian countries, Håkan LindgrenBanking and industry in central Europe, nineteenth to twentieth century, Alice TeichovaBanking and economic development in Spain, Gabriel TortellaThe role of banking in Italy's industrialization, nineteenth to twentieth century, Luigi de RosaThe role of European banks in the Ottoman Empire in the second half of nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Elena Frangakis-SyrettThe role of banks in establishing a community of firms in Russia, Andrei YudanovIV. The expansion of banking in the American and Asian economiesBanking in North America, 1700-1900, Larry SchweikartBanking as class action : social and national struggles in the history of Canadian banking, Robert C. H. SweenyNation building and the origins of banking in Latin America, 1850-1930, Carlos MarichalBanking, trade and the rise of capitalism in Argentina, 1850-1930, Andrés M. RegalskyInternational banking in China, 1890-1913, Shizuya NishimuraThe role of banking in Japan, 1882-1973, Kanji IshiiAxe de recherches : ANR – EMEREN-O : Efficacité entrepreneuriale et mutations économiques régionales en Europe du Nord-Ouest (milieu XVIIIe-fin XXe siècle)