Assessing the impact of World War I on the City of London
The interwar years saw the rise of New York to challenge London as the world's leading provider of financial services. This paper will show that the current explanations fail to identify a key factor in New York's rise. The City was prevented from operating a full capacity by a capital i...
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University of Oxford
2009
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