Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Kobrak, Christopher.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Description

xx, 484 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise.

Subjects

• Deutsche Bank History
• Banks and banking, Foreign > United States > History
• Banks and banking > Germany > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-475) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780521863254 (hardback)
• 0521863252 (hardback)

LCCN

• 2007016836
• 40014820885

OCLC

• 228430133
• ocn228430133
• SCSB-5930817

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries