The Invention of banking
In 13th- and 14th-century Tuscany, money became the new tool of power as industry, trade, and finance flourished. This program follows the remarkable rise of the great banking families whose groundbreaking innovations in finance led to the economics of international big business practiced today. Mer...
| Other Authors: | Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase., Redcanoe Productions, Inc. |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2005], c2004.
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| Physical Description: |
1 streaming video file (49 min.) : sd., col., digital. |
| Series: |
First light: Tuscany and the dawn of the Renaissance.
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Table of Contents:
- Italy's Financial Renaissance (2:32)
- Archives of Siena, Italy (3:54)
- Factors for Growing Trade and Finance (5:05)
- Creation of a Banking System: Part 1 (5:56)
- Creation of a Banking System: Part 2 (3:05)
- Creation of a Banking System: Part 3 (2:13)
- Usury: Merchants' Needs and Guilt (4:11)
- Italy's Fourteenth Century Wealth (2:49)
- Italy's Economic Boon (3:31)
- Status for the Italian Merchant Class (3:22)
- Early Italian Charitable Organizations (8:19)
- Birth of Banking Lives on Today (3:08)
- Before ATMS (0:29)