This volume presents a broad investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. Focusing on the historical development of fina

The remarkably successful gold standard before 1914 was the first international monetary regime. This book addresses the experience of the gold standard periphe

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands. These include

This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen