TY - BOOK AU - Feis,Herbert TI - Europe the world's banker, 1870-1914: an account of European foreign investment and the connection of world finance with diplomacy before the war AV - HG171 .F4 1931 U1 - 332.15 PY - 1931/// CY - New Haven, London PB - Yale university press, H. Milford, Oxford university press KW - Finance KW - World politics KW - Politics and government KW - World War (1914-1918) KW - International finance KW - Europe N1 - Includes bibliographic footnotes N2 - This book by the prominent economist-historian was originally published in 1930 to give an account of European foreign investment and the connection of world finance with "diplomacy", actually with foreign policy, before World War I. He now warns that "the task of directing (a nation's) foreign investment over a span say, of three decades, is something like pinning the tail on the donkey blindfolded." ER -