Building the Bank of England : money, architecture, society, 1694-1942 / Daniel M. Abramson.
Published / Created:
Yale University Press : New Haven, 2005.
Physical Description:
viii, 282 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0512/2005013484.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Wilderness years in Grocers' Hall, 1694-1734 -- Corporate virtue : George Sampson's Bank of England, 1731-34 -- Making the market : Robert Taylor's Bank of England, 1764-88 -- "Shadows upon the stone" : John Soane's early bank halls, 1788-99 -- The spectacle of finance : nationalism, urbanism, and bureaucracy, 1793-1808 -- Soane's finale and the Bank of England in his career, 1814-1833 -- Myth and modernity : Herbert Baker's Bank of England, 1921-1942 -- Architecture and history : learning from the Bank of England.
Subject Terms:
Bank of England -- Buildings. | Bank of England -- History. | Bank buildings -- England -- London. | Architecture and society -- England -- History. | London (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc.