Part I. General: 1. Interwar central banks: a tour d' horizon Barry Eichengreen and Andreas Kakridis; 2. The ideology of central banking in the interwar years and beyond Harold James; 3. Habit not heredity: central banks and global order Patricia Clavin; 4. Institutionalizing central bank cooperation: the Norman Schacht vision and early experience of the bank for international settlements, 1929-33 Piet Clement; Part II. Specific: 5. Central bank policy under foreign control: the Austrian national bank in the 1920s Hans Kernbauer; 6. Sneaking nationalization: Hungary and the liberal monetary order, 1924-1931 György Péteri; 7. The bank of Poland and monetary policy in the interwar years Cecylia Leszczy¿ska; 8. From banking office to national bank: the establishment of the national bank of Czechoslovakia, 1919-1926 Jakub Kunert; 9. 'Nobody's child': the bank of Greece in the interwar years Andreas Kakridis; 10. The Bulgarian national bank, 1926-1935: revamping the institution, addressing the depression Roumen Avramov; 11. Macroeconomic policies and the new central bank in Turkey, 1929-1939 ¿evket Pamuk; 12. Latin American experiments in central banking at the onset of the great depression Juan Flores Zendejas and Gianandrea Nodari; 13. Central banks in the British dominions in the interwar period John Singleton; 14. Central banking and colonial control: India, 1914-1939 G. Balachandran.