''Financial History Review'' is a
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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published three times a year by
Cambridge University Press
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on behalf of
The European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh). Established in 1994, the journal covers the historical development of banking, finance, and monetary matters. Articles address a broad range of issues of
financial
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and
monetary history, including technical and theoretical approaches, those derived from cultural and social perspectives and the interrelations between politics and finance. It is the only authoritative academic journal dedicated solely to financial history.
History
The field of financial and
banking history began in the 1930s with early research on British institutions, such as the
Sir John Clapham's study on the
Bank of England
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and W. F. Crick and J. E. Wadsworth's research on
joint-stock banking.
Subsequent on the early-modern period began in the 1950s/1960s, covering topics such as
bills of exchange
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, the
English financial revolution, and Italian merchant bankers. One challenge to its growth was the growing split between academics in history and in economic history. From the late 1950s, economic history increasingly became a sub-field of economics, rather than of history. This change also coincided with the growing use of quantitative models and
cliometric analysis. Meanwhile, historians began to combine the study of economic and social phenomena through the methodologies founded by the
Annales School in
France
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. This new discipline paved the way for Economic and Social History programmes, common at universities in the
United Kingdom
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and
Europe
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. As such, financial history, since the 1980s, remained a comparatively small sub-field compared to other sub-disciplines, like
economic history
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and
business history.
The first international academic organisation dedicated to financial history was the
European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh), founded in 1990. The eabh subsequently created the ''Financial History Review'' in 1994. The journal was co-founded by Youssef Cassis (Professor of Economic History,
European University Institute
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) and Philip Cottrell (Emeritus Professor of Financial History,
University of Leicester
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). According to Cassis, financial history has seen rapid growth in the past two decades: "Financial history has managed to remain a fairly homogenous discipline."
In recent issues, the ''FHR'' has also strived to be international in scope. Financial institutions and multinational banking requires delving into the role of cross-border or transnational histories. Cassis and Cottrell strived to define financial history as broadly as possible, understanding that there are common overlapping themes with
social history
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,
cultural history
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, and
area studies
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: "The present purpose has not been to give voice to some particular sectarian view, but to try and indicate that this journal represents a broad church, within both financial history and history".
Today, the journal remains the main academic journal dedicated solely to the field of financial history. The journal publishes articles on the interrelations of
finance
Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...
,
history
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,
public policy
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,
culture
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, and
society
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. Book reviews are published in "The Past Mirror" section of the journal. Each volume contains research articles, a reviews section, and an annual bibliography. According to its inaugural publication, the journal aims to promote closer collaboration between "academic practitioners and the practical world of banking and finance". The articles rely predominantly on descriptive, analytical, and a mix of qualitative and quantitative evidence. Its findings have been featured in media news outlets, such as ''
Forbes
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''.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed by
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,
Scopus
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,
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
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, and
RePEc.
See also
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The Journal of Economic History
''The Journal of Economic History'' is an academic journal of economic history which has been published since 1941. Many of its articles are quantitative, often following the formal approaches that have been called cliometrics or the new economi ...
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Economic History Review
''The Economic History Review'' is a peer-reviewed history journal published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Economic History Society. It was established in 1927 by Eileen Power and is currently edited by Sara Horrell, Jaime Reis and ...
''
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Business History Review
The ''Business History Review'' is a scholarly quarterly published by Cambridge University Press for Harvard Business School. ''Business History Review'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of business history. It was establish ...
''
References
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