Commercial Banks and Industrial Finance in England and Wales, 1860-1913 - Collins, Michael (, Professor of Financial History, University of Leeds) a Baker, Mae (, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of Leeds)

Presenting an interpretation of bank-industry relations in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this title considers whether deficiencies in the financial provision from banks to British industry handicapped Britain's competitive advantage in world markets. It also offers an economic rationale for historical bank behaviour.