Photographic acknowledgements are given in parentheses. Every effort has been made to contact all copyright holders. The publishers will be happy to make good in future editions any errors or omissions brought to their attention.
INTEGRATED ILLUSTRATIONS
P. 22: The Cerro Rico at Potosi (Sergio Ballivian)
P. 28: Clay tablet from Mesopotamia, c. 2nd millennium bc (Trustees of the British Museum)
P. 29: Clay tablet (reverse side) from Mesopotamia, c. 2nd millennium BC (Trustees of the British Museum) p. 40: The arrest of Gerard Law (Mirrorpix) p. 43: Quentin Massys The Banker (1514), (photo RMN) p. 45: Page from the ‘secret book’ of the Medici (Archive di Stato di Firenze)
P. 66: Japanese government ten-year bond (Embassy of Japan in the UK) p. 70: Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Breugel the Elder, The Battle about Money, after 1570 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) p. 77: A 5 per cent consol (July 1785) (Hersh L. Stern, Annuity Museum) p. 95: Confederate cotton bond with coupons (Michael Vidler) p. 97: Confederate ‘greyback’ State of Louisiana $5 bill (Louisiana State Museum)
P. 105: A German billion mark note from 1923 (Ron Wise) p. 130: The oldest share (1606), (Www. oldest-share. com)
144: A share in the Compagnie des Indes (Bibliotheque Nationale) 147; Scene in the rue Quincampoix, 1719 (Historic New Orleans Collection)
154: Engraving from The Great Scene of Folly (1720) (Historic New Orleans Collection)
155: Bernard Picart, Monument Consecrated to Posterity (1721) (Harvard Business School)
170: Alan Greenspan and Kenneth Lay (PA Images)
179: New Orleans after Katrina (Adrian Pennink)
191: Alexander Webster preaching in Edinburgh (Dawn Mcquillan) 194: Calculations for the original Scottish Ministers’ Widows’ Fund (National Archives, Scotland)
197: Sir Walter Scott’s life insurance policy (Scottish Widows)
201: Women and men in the workhouse (Ramsay Macdonald Papers, National Archives)
203; Men dining in the St Marylebone workhouse (Peter Higginbotham)
212: Milton Friedman (University of Chicago)
237: Stowe House (National Trust)
239: Three generations of aristocracy: the first, second and third Dukes of Buckingham (Stowe House Preservation Trust: Stowe School photographic archives)
244: Hunger marchers in Detroit (Walter P. Reuther Library)
245: ‘Smash Ford-Murphy Police Terror’ protest (Walter P. Reuther Library)
248: It’s A Wonderful Life (PA Images)
257: Danny Faulkner with his helicopter {Dallas Morning News)
290: William Jardine (Jardine, Matheson)
291: James Matheson (Jardine, Matheson)
311: Jaime Roldos Aguilera of Ecuador and Omar Torrijos of Panama (Getty)
315: George Soros (Soros)
318: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont (PA Images)
PLATES
I. Page from Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci, published izoz (reproduced by kind permission of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze)
Z. Botticelli’s Adoration of the Magi (Alinari)
3. Nathan Mayer Rothschild (N. M. Rothschild &C Sons)
4. Cartoon from Le Rire (Mary Evans Picture Library)
5. Union gunships on the Mississippi (Museum of the Confederacy)
6. The Dutch Empire (Dutch National Archives)
7. Emanuel de Witte, Beurs van Amsterdam, 1653 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
8. Portrait of John Law (Louisiana State Museum)
9. Map of Louisiana (Louisiana State Museum)
10. Louisiana (Louisiana State Museum)
II. Tokyo earthquake
12. Richard ‘Dickie’ Scruggs {New York Times)
13. Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel (Citadel)
14. Grenville diptych
15. Diego Rivera’s Garden Court Mural, North wall (Detroit Institute of Arts)
16. Diego Rivera’s Garden Court Mural, South wall (detail) (Detroit Institute of Arts)
17. Details from Charles Darrow’s original Atlantic City Monopoly
18. The original Mr Monopoly
19. Old Chongqing (photograph by G. H. Thomas, author oi An American in China: 1936-1939)
20. Modern Chongqing
World History
