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Virginia and worked for the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City. Among his
publications are Financing Anglo-American Trade: the House of Brown, 1800–
1880 (Harvard University Press, 1975), American Public Finance and Financial
Services, 1700–1815 (Ohio State University Press, 1994), and Charles Merrill and
Middle Class Investors (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Alain Plessis, agrégé d’histoire, docteur d’État and alumnus of the École Normale
Supérieure, is professor emeritus at the University of Paris X Nanterre. His many
publications in the field of financial history include La Banque de France pendant
le Second Empire, 3 vols (1982–85), Histoire de la Banque de France (1998) and,
together with Michel Lescure, Banques locales et banques régionales en France
au XIXe siècle (1999).
Luciano Segreto is professor of economic history at the University of Florence.
His main research interests are in post-WW2 international business and financial
history. Chairman of the Cultural Memory Council of the ICCA, he is a member of
the Scientific Committee of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine and
of many international journals. Among his most recent publications are Giacinto
Motta: Un ingegnere alla testa del capitalismo industriale italiano (Rome Bari,
Laterza, 2004), Produrre per il mondo: L’industria reggiana dalla crisi petrolifera
alla globalizzazione, edited by G.L. Basini, G. Lugli and L. Segreto (Rome Bari,
Laterza, 2005), East–West Trade in Cold War Europe: National Interests and
Hypocrisy, in Towards a New Europe. Identity, Economics, Institutions: Different
Experiences, edited by A. Tonini (Florence, 2006).
Gabriele Teichmann studied history, English literature and philosophy at Bonn
and Edinburgh universities. After taking her exams, she worked at the department
for economic and social history of Bonn University as well as for the German
Association for Business History. In 1985, she started her career with Sal.
Oppenheim jr. & Cie. whose head of archives she became in 1989. She has authored
or co-authored several books and articles on the history of the Oppenheim bank
and family, among them Wägen und Wagen: Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie.: Geschichte
einer Bank und einer Familie, 3rd edn (Munich, 1994 = English edition: Striking
the Balance: Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. a Family and a Bank, London 1994) and
Faszination Orient: Max von Oppenheim. Forscher, Sammler, Diplomat (Cologne,
2nd edn 2002). Within the EABH, she has served on a number of committees like
the Academic Advisory Council and the Bureau.
Pat Thane has been professor of contemporary British history, Institute of
Historical Research, University of London since October 2002. She was professor
of contemporary history at the University of Sussex 1994–2002. Her publications
include: The Foundations of the Welfare State (Longman, 1982 2nd edn, 1996),
Women and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States,
1880s–1950s, co-ed. with Gisela Bock (Routledge, 1990), Old Age from Antiquity