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Banking on global markets : Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the present / Christopher Kobrak.

By: Series: Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprisePublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012, 2008.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xx, 484 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107411807 (pbk.) :
  • 9780521863254 (hardback)
  • 0521863252 (hardback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HG3058.D4 K63 2008
Contents:
Overview of the title and terrain -- On golden chariots-- Deutsche Bank's U.S. business 1870 to 1914 -- First steps -- Deutsche Bank and American electrification -- The Northern Pacific bankruptcy saga -- The fallout -- Other transportation and commercial investments -- A taste for start-ups -- Transitions -- -- Deutsche Bank and the U.S. during the "great disorder", 1914-1957 -- Personal, communication, and financial breakdowns -- War supplies, espionage, and expropriation -- Salvaging assets and business prospects in the war's immediate aftermath -- Deutsche Bank and rebuilding cross-border financial flows -- Deutsche bank and the collapse of the fragile world order -- Second phoenix -- Renewal and re-entry: 1957 to 2000 -- Divisive issues and the making of a new financial landscape -- From Abs to Kopper and from joint ventures to branching -- Bankers Trust acquisition -- Postscript: Deutsche Bank in the U.S. and the future of multinational banking -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Review: "Banking on Global Markets uses the story of the U.S. business and political dealings of Germany's largest bank to illuminate important developments in the ongoing globalization of major financial institutions. Throughout its nearly 140-year-long history, Deutsche Bank served as one of Germany's principal vehicles for forging economic and other links with the rest of the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Holdings
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection HG 3058 .D4 K63 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5146415

First published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-475) and index.

Overview of the title and terrain -- On golden chariots-- Deutsche Bank's U.S. business 1870 to 1914 -- First steps -- Deutsche Bank and American electrification -- The Northern Pacific bankruptcy saga -- The fallout -- Other transportation and commercial investments -- A taste for start-ups -- Transitions -- -- Deutsche Bank and the U.S. during the "great disorder", 1914-1957 -- Personal, communication, and financial breakdowns -- War supplies, espionage, and expropriation -- Salvaging assets and business prospects in the war's immediate aftermath -- Deutsche Bank and rebuilding cross-border financial flows -- Deutsche bank and the collapse of the fragile world order -- Second phoenix -- Renewal and re-entry: 1957 to 2000 -- Divisive issues and the making of a new financial landscape -- From Abs to Kopper and from joint ventures to branching -- Bankers Trust acquisition -- Postscript: Deutsche Bank in the U.S. and the future of multinational banking -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Banking on Global Markets uses the story of the U.S. business and political dealings of Germany's largest bank to illuminate important developments in the ongoing globalization of major financial institutions. Throughout its nearly 140-year-long history, Deutsche Bank served as one of Germany's principal vehicles for forging economic and other links with the rest of the world."--BOOK JACKET.

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