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Temples of Mammon : the architecture of banking

Title
Temples of Mammon : the architecture of banking / John Booker.
Author
Booker, John, 1941-
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New York : Distributed in North America by Columbia University Press, ©1990.

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Description
xviii, 361 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This historical study traces the architectural styles of UK banks from the 18th century to the present day, demonstrating how architects adopted ideas from Venice and Elizabethan Britain to give banking buildings respectability and continuity.
Subject
  • Bank buildings > Great Britain
  • Architecture > Great Britain
  • Architecture
  • Bank buildings
  • Architektur
  • Bank
  • Bankgebäude
  • Geschichte
  • Great Britain
  • England
  • Großbritannien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-341) and index.
Contents
The era of private banking -- From Fleet Street to Corn Street: the impact of joint-stock banking -- The early savings banks -- High Victorian confidence and experimentation -- Tradition in disarray -- The twentieth century: prestige gained, lost and coveted.
ISBN
  • 0748601988
  • 9780748601981
LCCN
91187942
OCLC
  • ocm26015508
  • 26015508
  • SCSB-1947776
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library