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Frontispiece; Hans Bauer Acknowledgements Introductory PART ONE: THE MEDIAEVAL WORLD OF BANKING AND CURRENCY The Mediaeval Money Economy The Money Changers of Basle PART TWO: THE ROOTS OF SWISS BANKING The Background The Dawn of Modern Switzerland PART THREE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY BANKING Savings Banking and the Industrial Revolution The Development of a New Swiss Banking System: The Railway The Banking World of the Nineteenth Century Swiss Banks Reach their Formative Stage Nineteenth-Century Capitalism PART FOUR: THE TRAGEDY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The End of an Era Reconstruction The Tragedy of War and the Dawn of a New Era Index
