Jacob Schiff and the Art of Risk American Financing of Japan's War with Russia (1904-1905) /

• Main Author: Gower, Adam (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance,
• Subjects: Finance-History.; Risk management.; Banks and banking.; Financial History.; Risk Management.; Banking.

"A fascinating, wholly new, account of the emergence of Japan as a major player in the global economy and politics in the early twentieth century, and New York financier Jacob Schiff's role in funding it, while he boosted the US challenge to the City of London's dominance in world fin...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2
• Historiography
• Chapter 3. Jacob Schiff and His Cohort
• Chapter 4. Japan
• Chapter 5. The Business of Banking
• Chapter 6. The English Syndicate
• Chapter 7. Financing the War
• Chapter 8. Impact and Conclusions.