''Conservatives abroad, liberal at home'', British banking regulation during the nineteenth century' in S Battilossi & J Reiss (eds), State and Financial Systems in Europe and the USA. Historical perspectives on regulation and supervision in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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Deals with the regulation of the formation and activities of joint stock banks through legislation in the first half of the 19th century, especially the path to the 1844 Joint Stock Banking Act, in response to recurrent commercial crises and how regulation and restrictions designed for chartered colonial banks provided a framework for dealing with domestic banks