Duncan M. Ross
Ashgate
Hardback
196
There has recently been a considerable amount of work published on 'Popular Banking' of various sorts - agricultural credit cooperatives soft loan societies and urban lending and cooperative societies. Much of this work remains at a specialist and detailed level. This collection seeks to introduce some of this material to a wider audience of economic and social historians while drawing some important comparisons across the whole of the European continent on the meaning of various institutional contexts. Its particular advantages lie in the comparisons between Eastern and Western Europe the location of popular banking in the context of the wider financial system and in the long time perspective which it adopts. That attention is paid to the Soviet banking model and its application in the countries of Eastern Europe is of considerable interest as are the very different perspectives on the role and place of popular banking in the late twentieth century. In historiographical terms it also brings much of the eastern European literature to the attention of an English speaking audience for the first time.
Ashgate
Hardback
196
There has recently been a considerable amount of work published on 'Popular Banking' of various sorts - agricultural credit cooperatives soft loan societies and urban lending and cooperative societies. Much of this work remains at a specialist and detailed level. This collection seeks to introduce some of this material to a wider audience of economic and social historians while drawing some important comparisons across the whole of the European continent on the meaning of various institutional contexts. Its particular advantages lie in the comparisons between Eastern and Western Europe the location of popular banking in the context of the wider financial system and in the long time perspective which it adopts. That attention is paid to the Soviet banking model and its application in the countries of Eastern Europe is of considerable interest as are the very different perspectives on the role and place of popular banking in the late twentieth century. In historiographical terms it also brings much of the eastern European literature to the attention of an English speaking audience for the first time.