The Chinese cornerstone of modern banking : : the Canton guaranty system and the origins of bank deposit insurance 1780-1933 / / by Frederick Delano Grant, Jr.
Modern bank insurance is traced to its roots in The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933 . Frederic Delano Grant, Jr. provides new understandings of the Canton System, collective responsibility for debt at Canton, and t...
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| Superior document: | Legal History Library, Volume 14 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Legal history library ;
Volume 14. Legal history library. Studies in the history of private law ; Volume 6. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Frederic Delano Grant
- 1 Introduction / Frederic Delano Grant
- 2 Sources of the Canton Guaranty System / Frederic Delano Grant
- 3 Evolution of the Canton Guaranty System / Frederic Delano Grant
- 4 The Fund is Drained, 1780–1799 / Frederic Delano Grant
- 5 Three Plagues: War, Piracy and Litigation, 1800–1814 / Frederic Delano Grant
- 6 Years of Rebound and Opium, 1815–1828 / Frederic Delano Grant
- 7 The Last Years of the Canton System, 1829–1842 / Frederic Delano Grant
- 8 From Safety Fund to Bank Deposit Insurance / Frederic Delano Grant
- 9 Eighty Years of Bank Deposit Insurance / Frederic Delano Grant
- 10 Epilogue / Frederic Delano Grant
- Appendices / Frederic Delano Grant
- Bibliography / Frederic Delano Grant
- Index / Frederic Delano Grant.