Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on February 2, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(1):190-192; doi:10.1093/es/khm001
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.
Daniel M. Abramson. Building the Bank of England: Money, Architecture, Society, 16941942
Daniel M. Abramson. Building the Bank of England: Money, Architecture, Society, 16941942. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. viii + 282 pp. ISBN 0-300-10924-5, $95.00 (cloth)
| The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below. |
Daniel Abramson's thorough study examines the architectural history of the Bank of England as a reflection of the bank's priorities and interests and as the institution and the building developed into vital players in Britain's image. In the process of tracing the evolution of the various structures occupied by the bank during the period from 1694 to 1942, he has created a model interdisciplinary study that places the Bank of England as a structure and financial institution within
Virginia Polytechnic and State University