Banking and Empire in Iran: Volume 1: The History of the British Bank of the Middle East [Hardcover]

Geoffrey Jones (Author)

Book Description

Series: History of the British Bank of the Middle East | Publication Date: October 31, 1986

This is the first of two volumes of a business history of a major British bank in the Middle East. Volume 1 traces the history of the bank from its foundation in 1889 as The Imperial Bank of Persia, through the years it was the state bank of Iran, and its development of modern banking in that country, to the ending of its links in 1952. The Bank's history has great importance for an understanding of the economic and political history of Iran in the first half of the twentieth century, and of Britain's diplomatic and economic relations with Iran, and provides evidence challenging many accepted viewpoints. The Bank played a vital role in the region, and in the 'Great Game' between Britain and Russia. During the inter-war years its history was enmeshed with the Pahlavi dynasty and the rise of Iranian nationalism. The book will be invaluable to business and other historians as one of the first scholarly histories of a British overseas bank. Banking and Oil, Volume 2 of The Hist

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About the Author

Geoffrey Jones is Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School. He previously taught at the universities of Cambridge and Reading, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in Great Britain. --Author

Product Details

• Hardcover: 442 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (October 31, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521323223
• ISBN-13: 978-0521323222
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,377,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Geoffrey Jones teaches the history of global business at the Harvard Business School, where he holds the Isidor Straus Professorship, established in 1927 as the first Chair in business history in the world. His most recent book, which is on the history of the globalization of the beauty industry, is Beauty Imagined. He is now researching the history of green entrepreneurship. He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.