Commercial banking in a market-oriented financial system: Britain between the wars

Economic History Review

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 314-335

  Ross, Duncan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1996.tb00568.x     Document Type: Article

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