by Alexia Yates | Feb 25, 2022 | Uncategorised
Monuments to Financial Crisis Space matters tremendously to both the reproduction and the everyday experience of finance, something which did not elude contemporary financial operatives and their critics in nineteenth-century France. The premises of a financial...
by Alexia Yates | Jul 20, 2021 | Uncategorised
The World (of documents) Investors Made A historian of French economic life will very likely find themselves visiting the Archives Nationales du Monde du Travail – the National Archives of the World of Work – at some point in their project. Located in the former...
by Alexia Yates | Apr 4, 2021 | Uncategorised
The View from the Cloakroom Paris’s Stock Exchange – the Bourse – was the heart of the second largest financial market in the world down to the Great War. It trailed London in terms of the volume of transactions it hosted, but was nevertheless similarly...
by Alexia Yates | Jan 17, 2021 | Uncategorised
Defending the Haitian Debt France’s recognition of Haiti’s independence in 1825 – an independence that the former colony, Saint-Domingue, had enjoyed de facto since its military victories more than twenty years earlier – came with a set of onerous financial...
by Alexia Yates | Dec 15, 2020 | Uncategorised
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