Abstract：

To overcome the deficiency in existing research of financial history, Barry Eichengreen in 2011 introduced the concept of new monetary and financial history, and guided a new direction for this area. The monetary and financial history, as a kind of research approach, analyzes historical financial events by a method bridging the gap between macro and micro factors, and can cover the research of financial history from ancient to modern age. The concept and approach has had a significant influence to study in monetary, banking and financial crises history in less than a decade, and has been accepted by academic circle.

Published on Economic and Social History Review, Issue 6, 2020.