Old Regime in a New World: Frankfurt’s Financial Market in the Nineteenth Century*
@article{Hein2020OldRI, title={Old Regime in a New World: Frankfurt’s Financial Market in the Nineteenth Century*}, author={Benjamin Hein}, journal={The Journal of Modern History}, year={2020}, volume={92}, pages={735 - 773} }
During the final third of the nineteenth century, German-speaking central Europe emerged as one of the leading creditors of US governments and corporations. London, Amsterdam, and New York played a key part in channeling German capital to North America, but so did—rather improbably—the small mercantile city of Frankfurt am Main. This article revisits Frankfurt’s rise as a major financial center in the Atlantic World. It explores why and how a city of such modest size, and with little prior…
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