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Compton Mackenzie
Realms of Silver [EPUB ebook]
One Hundred Years of Banking in the East

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Originally published in 1954 this volume looks at the difficulties encountered by the founders of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China in seeking, a hundred years ago, to establish the awakening countries of the East, British standard of financial probity and commercial integrity and then goes on to relate how the Bank was able to foster trade and industry in the lands to which its establishment was extended and to co-operate in the reform of archaic systems of currency.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 392 ● ISBN 9781136583704 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2834473 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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