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Author Landes, David S.

Title Bankers and pashas : international finance and economic imperialism in Egypt / David S. Landes.

Publication Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1958.

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Description xvi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series Studies in entrepreneurial history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects Banks and banking, Foreign -- Egypt -- History.
Dervieu, Edouard, 1824-1904.
Investments, Foreign -- Egypt -- History.
Egypt -- Foreign economic relations.
Contents 1. Gentle calling of high finance -- 2. Bull market -- 3. Klondike on the Nile -- 4. Rise of Edouard Dervieu -- 5. Ismaïl -- 6. Credit and debit of viceroyal banking -- 7. Digression on Suez -- 8. Escape that failed -- 9. High cost of grace -- 10. End of the cotton boom -- 11. Double-cross, redoubled; or the ins and outs of Egyptian finance -- 12. No exit -- 13. Panic -- 14. Liquidation -- 15. In guise of epilogue -- 16. Conclusion.
ISBN 0674061659
OCLC # ewlathens8346