The Rise and Fall of the City of Money: A Financial History of Edinburgh by Ray Perman

The Rise and Fall of the City of Money: A Financial History of Edinburgh

Ray Perman

336 pages • first pub 2019 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city’s tw...

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