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 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
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...
Defending the Haitian Debt: Bondholder Activism in 19th-century France
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...
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