Monuments to Financial Crisis

Monuments to Financial Crisis

 Monuments to Financial CrisisSpace 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...

The World (of documents) Investors Made

The World (of documents) Investors Made

  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...

Everyday Finance: The View from the Cloakroom

Everyday Finance: The View from the Cloakroom

 The View from the CloakroomParis’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...

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