Building the Bank of England : money, architecture, society, 1694-1942

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New Haven
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Yale University Press

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Dewey Decimal Class
725/.24/09421
Library of Congress
NA6245.G72 L633 2005

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL3399568M
ISBN 10
0300109245
LCCN
2005013484
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8910028
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604237

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