The provincial branches of the Bank of England were, for much of the 19th century, among the most important banking institutions in the workshop of the world and close study of the role of the Bank in the provinces is highly revealing. This provides much evidence for the view that the needs of manufacturing industry were of little interest to the Bank parlour and argues that the Bank's much-vaunted independence from government caused chronic damage to the management of the national economy.
- ISBN10 071851338X
- ISBN13 9780718513382
- Publish Date 1 September 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 May 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English