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Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe. (Studies in Banking History).
1. Business enterprises Political aspects Europe Congresses.
2. Europe Economic conditions 19181945 Congresses.
3. Europe Politics and government 19181945 Congresses.
I. James, Harold, 1956 II. Tanner, Jakob.
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Franco Amatori is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, Milan. He is President of the Italian Association of Business Historians as well as President of the European Business History Association. He has published widely on subjects of Italian business history, for example histories of Lancia and Montecatini. Together with Alfred Chandler and Takashi Hikino he has edited Big Business and the Wealth of Nations (Cambridge, 1997).
Boris Barth was born in 1961 in Duisburg, Germany. He is Assistant Professor of Modern German History at the University of Konstanz, Konstanzer Forschungskolleg (KFK). He has published widely on subjects of history, such as German financial imperialism before 1914, German banking in Latin America, European financial diplomacy, economic relations between Germany and Czechoslovakia during the inter-war period, the German perception of the USA and Norway, and the North in German strategy.
Jean-Franois Bergier was born in 1931 in Lausanne. He was Professor for History at the ETH Zurich from 1969 to 1999. He has held a variety of other posts and offices and is President of the Independent Commission of Experts: Switzerland Second World War. He has published widely on Swiss history and the history of the Alps, e.g. Histoire conomique de la Suisse (Zrich, 1982; Lausanne, 1983).
Mercedes Cabrera is Professor of History at the Faculty of Political Science at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Among her publications are a book on the organizations of Spanish entrepreneurs in the 1930s, La patronal ante la II Repblica 19311936 and a biography of the Spanish entrepreneur Nicols Mari de Urgoiti (18691951) and, her most recent, Con luz y taquigrafos. El parlamento de la Restauracion 19131923 (1998).
Fernando del Rey is Professor of History at the Faculty of Political Science at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. He has published a book on the organizations of Spanish entrepreneurs between 1914 and 1923, Propietarios y patronos. La poltica de las organizaciones econmicas en la Espaa de la Restauracin and various articles on related subjects.
Gerald D. Feldman was born in 1937 in New York, USA. He teaches history at the University of California in Berkeley. He is currently a fellow of the American Academy, Berlin, and is researching the history of Allianz Insurance Company. He has published widely on German economic history, for example the chapter on The Deutsche Bank from World War to World Economic Crises 19141933, in Lothar Gall, Gerald D. Feldman, Harold James, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Hans E. Bschgen, Die Deutsche Bank 18701995 (Munich, 1995; English edition, London, 1995), and a biography of the German industrialist Hugo Stinnes (Munich, 1998).
Patrick Fridenson, born in 1944, is Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is past President of the Association Franaise des Historiens Economistes. His field of research is the history of enterprises and labour in the twentieth century from a comparative perspective. His publications include Le capitalisme franais XIXe-XXe sicle (Paris, 1987) and the new edition of Histoire des Usines Renault, vol. I (Paris, 1998).
Per H. Hansen was born in 1957. He is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Institute for History and Western Civilisation, University of Southern Denmark. He has published books and articles on banking history and the Danish economy during the German occupation. He is currently working on a research project on the European central banks and the financial crisis of 1931 as well as a project on the history of Danish modern furniture makers.
Peter Hayes, born in 1946, is Professor of History at Northwestern University, Illinois. He is currently preparing a history of the Degussa AG, 19331945, as well as a book entitled Profits and Persecution: German Big Business and the Holocaust. His numerous publications include Industry and Ideology. IG Farben in the Nazi Era (Cambridge, 1987).
Harold James, born in 1956, is Professor of History at Princeton University and currently a fellow of Historisches Kolleg, Munich. He is a member of the Independent Commission of Experts: Switzerland Second World War, which investigates the fate of assets transferred to Switzerland in the National Socialist era. Among his many publications are International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (Oxford 1996) and the chapter The Deutsche Bank and the Dictatorship 19331945, in Die Deutsche Bank (see above).
Hein A.M. Klemann, born in 1957, is currently working in the Department of History at Utrecht University. For his PhD thesis Between Reich and Empire, about Dutch trade in the 1930s, he was awarded the Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Dutch Society of Sciences). He has published a number of articles on the Dutch economy under German occupation.
Christopher Kopper was born in 1962 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. Between 1991 and 1998 he was a lecturer at the University of Gttingen and he is currently Professor for German Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He has published on banking in National Socialist Germany, on infrastructure and transport in the National Socialist era and post-war Germany. His publications include
