This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe and half a millennium.

1. Introduction Part 1: Money Introduction 2. The Evolution of Money in Western Europe 3. Bank Money 4. Bimetallism and the Emergence of Gold Standard Part 2: Banking Introduction 5. English and Scottish Banking 6. French Banking 7. German Banking 8. Italian and Spanish Banking Part 3: Finance Introduction 9. Government Finance 10. Private Finance, Individuals and Families 11. Private Finance - The Corporation 12. Foreign Investment - Dutch, British, French and German Experience to 1914 13. Transfer Cases 14. Foreign Lending - Political and Analytical Aspects 15. Financial Crises Part 4: The Interwar Period Introduction 16. War Finance, Reparations, War Debts 17. German Postwar Inflation 18. The Restoration of the Pound to Par 19. Stabilization of the Franc 20. The 1929 Depression 21. The 1930s Part 5: After World War II Introduction 22. German Finance In and After World War II 23. Lend-Lease, the British Loan, the Marshall Plan 24. European Financial Integration