Carlo Edoardo Altamura is a postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, a visiting college research associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, and a visiting scholar at the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge, UK. His interests lie in post-war banking and financial history in the West and in the developing regions.

• List of ArchivesList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceINTRODUCTION - ‘Post Fata Resurgo’: At the Origins of Modern FinanceCHAPTER I - Halcyon DaysCHAPTER II- Half MeasuresCHAPTER III- The Impact of OilCHAPTER IV- Full MeasuresCHAPTER V- Wuthering HeightsReferences

Carlo Edoardo Altamura is a postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, a visiting college research associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, and a visiting scholar at the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge, UK. His interests lie in post-war banking and financial history in the West and in the developing regions.

• List of ArchivesList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceINTRODUCTION - ‘Post Fata Resurgo’: At the Origins of Modern FinanceCHAPTER I - Halcyon DaysCHAPTER II- Half MeasuresCHAPTER III- The Impact of OilCHAPTER IV- Full MeasuresCHAPTER V- Wuthering HeightsReferences

Carlo Edoardo Altamura is a postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, a visiting college research associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, and a visiting scholar at the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge, UK. His interests lie in post-war banking and financial history in the West and in the developing regions.

• List of ArchivesList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceINTRODUCTION - ‘Post Fata Resurgo’: At the Origins of Modern FinanceCHAPTER I - Halcyon DaysCHAPTER II- Half MeasuresCHAPTER III- The Impact of OilCHAPTER IV- Full MeasuresCHAPTER V- Wuthering HeightsReferences