Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

PART I INSIGHTS INTO MALTA’S BANKING AND MONETARY HISTORY

1 A Small, Open Mediterranean Economy – Then and Now

Address by Michael C. Bonello, Governor, Central Bank of Malta

2 Malta’s Banking History: Overview and Observations

John A. Consiglio

3 Outlines of Malta’s Numismatic History

Joseph C. Sammut K.M.

PART II THE RISE OF MODERN BANKING AND FINANCE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

4 The Mediterranean Banking Systems: Convergence or Path Dependence?

Massimiliano Affinito and Riccardo De Bonis

5 Stability against All Odds: The Imperial Ottoman Bank, 1875–1914

Edhem Eldem

PART III FINANCE AND INTRAMEDITERRANEAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS

6 Non-bank Financial Corporate Start-ups, 1830–1909: A Note on Greek Banking History

Ioanna Sapho Pepelasis

7 Diversity in Banking Systems: France, Italy and Spain, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Juan Carles Maixé-Altés

8 Banking Expansion, Success and Failure in the British Mediterranean: The Ionian Bank, 1840s–1920s

Alexandros Apostolides and Athanasios Gekas

PART IV MONEY AND CURRENCY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

9 National States and Central Banks in the Mediterranean World in the Interwar Period

Nuno Valério

10 Central Banking in the Iberian Peninsula: A Comparison

Pablo Martín-Aceña

11 A Mediterranean Nineteenth Century: Economic Dynamics of the Mediterranean Area during the First Two-Thirds of the Century

Gérard Chastagnaret

PART V BANKING AND FINANCE ARCHIVES

12 Second-rate Imperialism: The Banque d’Etat du Maroc, Viewed from the Archives of the Bank of Spain

Maria Teresa Tortella and Gabriel Tortella

13 How French Banking Archives Document Mediterranean History (c. 1850–1960)

Catherine Dardignac and Roger Nougaret

14 The Historical Archives of the Banco di Napoli: A Primary Resource for Social and Economic History in a Mediterranean View

Paola Avallone and Giovanni Lombardi

Bibliography

Index