Youssef Cassis is Professor of Contemporary Economic History, University of Grenoble II, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of Big Business: The European Experience in the 20th Century (OUP, 1997), and co-editor of European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking Under Bretton Woods (OUP, 2002), with Stefano Battilossi.Eric Bussière is Jean Monnet Professor of European Construction at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is the author of Horace Finaly, Banquier (Paris, Fayard, 1996), and editor of Georges Pompidou et la Mutation Economique de l'Occident (Paris, PUF, 2003).

The editors have more skilfully directed this Anglo-French band to common issues and questions than editors of conference volumes normally do, and Cassis' nine-page introduction usefully poses an agenda of questions and a comparative framework to set the reader thinking.

• PART I: LONDON AND PARIS IN LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE, 1890-2000; PART II: 'GOLDEN AGE', 1890-1914; PART III: FROM GLOBAL REACH TO REGIONAL WITHDRAWAL, 1914-58; PART IV: THE ROAD TO GLOBALIZATION, 1958-80; PART V: INTERNATIONALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION, 1980-2000

Youssef Cassis is Professor of Contemporary Economic History, University of Grenoble II, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of Big Business: The European Experience in the 20th Century (OUP, 1997), and co-editor of European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking Under Bretton Woods (OUP, 2002), with Stefano Battilossi.Eric Bussière is Jean Monnet Professor of European Construction at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is the author of Horace Finaly, Banquier (Paris, Fayard, 1996), and editor of Georges Pompidou et la Mutation Economique de l'Occident (Paris, PUF, 2003).

The editors have more skilfully directed this Anglo-French band to common issues and questions than editors of conference volumes normally do, and Cassis' nine-page introduction usefully poses an agenda of questions and a comparative framework to set the reader thinking.

• PART I: LONDON AND PARIS IN LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE, 1890-2000; PART II: 'GOLDEN AGE', 1890-1914; PART III: FROM GLOBAL REACH TO REGIONAL WITHDRAWAL, 1914-58; PART IV: THE ROAD TO GLOBALIZATION, 1958-80; PART V: INTERNATIONALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION, 1980-2000

Youssef Cassis is Professor of Contemporary Economic History, University of Grenoble II, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of Big Business: The European Experience in the 20th Century (OUP, 1997), and co-editor of European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking Under Bretton Woods (OUP, 2002), with Stefano Battilossi.Eric Bussière is Jean Monnet Professor of European Construction at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is the author of Horace Finaly, Banquier (Paris, Fayard, 1996), and editor of Georges Pompidou et la Mutation Economique de l'Occident (Paris, PUF, 2003).

The editors have more skilfully directed this Anglo-French band to common issues and questions than editors of conference volumes normally do, and Cassis' nine-page introduction usefully poses an agenda of questions and a comparative framework to set the reader thinking.

• PART I: LONDON AND PARIS IN LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE, 1890-2000; PART II: 'GOLDEN AGE', 1890-1914; PART III: FROM GLOBAL REACH TO REGIONAL WITHDRAWAL, 1914-58; PART IV: THE ROAD TO GLOBALIZATION, 1958-80; PART V: INTERNATIONALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION, 1980-2000