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Author |
: Christof Dejung |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2018-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317296195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317296192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World by : Christof Dejung
Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market provides a new perspective on economic globalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead of understanding the emergence of global markets as a mere result of supply and demand or as the effect of imperial politics, this book focuses on a global trading firm as an exemplary case of the actors responsible for conducting economic transactions in a multicultural business world. The study focuses on the Swiss merchant house Volkart Bros., which was one of the most important trading houses in British India after the late nineteenth century and became one of the biggest cotton and coffee traders in the world after decolonization. The book examines the following questions: How could European merchants establish business contacts with members of the mercantile elite from India, China or Latin America? What role did a shared mercantile culture play for establishing relations of trust? How did global business change with the construction of telegraph lines and railways and the development of economic institutions such as merchant banks and commodity exchanges? And what was the connection between the business interests of transnationally operating capitalists and the territorial aspirations of national and imperial governments? Based on a five-year-long research endeavor and the examination of 24 public and private archives in seven countries and on three continents, Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market goes well beyond a mere company history as it highlights the relationship between multinationally operating firms and colonial governments, and the role of business culture in establishing notions of trust, both within the firm and between economic actors in different parts of the world. It thus provides a cutting-edge history of globalization from a micro-perspective. Following an actor-theoretical perspective, the book maintains that the global market that came into being in the nineteenth century can be perceived as the consequence of the interaction of various actors. Merchants, peasants, colonial bureaucrats and industrialists were all involved in spinning the individual threads of this commercial web. By connecting established approaches from business history with recent scholarship in the fields of global and colonial history, Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market offers a new perspective on the emergence of global enterprise and provides an important addition to the history of imperialism and economic globalization.
Author |
: Pim de Zwart |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2018-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108426992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108426999 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origins of Globalization by : Pim de Zwart
Reveals how global trade shaped early modern economic, social and political development, and inaugurated the first era of globalization.
Author |
: Steven Topik |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2006-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822337665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822337669 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Silver to Cocaine by : Steven Topik
DIVClaims that the history of commodities in Latin America (or anywhere) cannot be understood without considering their global context, often from a long-term perspective./div
Author |
: Espen Storli |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2024-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040129944 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040129943 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creating Global Capitalism by : Espen Storli
This book provides a unique insight into the world of commodity trading companies, often depicted as the hidden companies of the global economy and showcases how they were instrumental in bringing about the economic integration of new commodities and far-flung regions into the first global economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The late nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented phase of global economic integration. As organisers of global trade, trading companies specialising in commodities were instrumental in creating this first global economy. From soybeans to cultural artefacts, from seal hides to rubber, trading companies connected far-flung regions at or beyond the frontier of empires to a growing global market for these commodities. Satisfying the unsatiable appetite for commodities of industrializing economies in North America, Europe and East Asia, their nimble organisations and specialised trading skills allowed trading companies to harness imperial geopolitics, latch onto local networks and move across borders. This book brings together a collection of case studies of commodity trading companies across a range of commodities and regions between the 1870s and the 1930s. Through the lens of global value chains, the contributions showcase how these companies continuously adapted their businesses to a world that was at once economically more integrated but politically increasingly competitive in this age of high imperialism and national competition. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Business History.
Author |
: Martina Kaller |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1138385158 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781138385153 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492 by : Martina Kaller
Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became important in the 'Old World', especially with regard to the establishment early modern consumer societies. This book brings together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to Europe as well as their cultural implications.
Author |
: Emma Hart |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2019-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226659817 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022665981X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Trading Spaces by : Emma Hart
Looks at the shift from the marketplace as an actual place to a theoretical idea and how this shaped the early American economy. When we talk about the economy, “the market” is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading Spaces, Emma Hart argues that Britain’s colonization of North America was a key moment in the market’s shift from place to idea, with major consequences for the character of the American economy. Hart’s book takes in the shops, auction sites, wharves, taverns, fairs, and homes of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America—places where new mechanisms and conventions of trade arose as Europeans re-created or adapted continental methods to new surroundings. Since those earlier conventions tended to rely on regulation more than their colonial offspring did, what emerged in early America was a less-fettered brand of capitalism. By the nineteenth century, this had evolved into a market economy that would not look too foreign to contemporary Americans. To tell this complex transnational story of how our markets came to be, Hart looks back farther than most historians of US capitalism, rooting these markets in the norms of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Perhaps most important, this is not a story of specific commodity markets over time but rather is a history of the trading spaces themselves: the physical sites in which the grubby work of commerce occurred and where the market itself was born.
Author |
: Christine Zabel |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2021-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000364071 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000364070 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World by : Christine Zabel
This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith’s theories is considered a central component of economic theory. Having in the twentieth century become one of the key-features of rational choice models, and thus is seen as an idealized trait of human behavior, self-interest has, despite Albert O. Hirschman’s pivotal analysis of self-interest, only marginally been historicized. A historicization(s) of self-interest, however, offers new insights into the concept by asking why, when, for what reason and in which contexts the notion was discussed or referred to, how it was employed by contemporaries, and how the different usages developed and changed over time. This helps us to appreciate the various transformations in the perception of the notion, and also to explore how and in what ways different people at different times and in different regions reflected on or realized the act of considering what was in their best interest. The volume focuses on those different usages, knowledges, and practices concerned with self-interest in the modern Atlantic World from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, by using different approaches, including political and economic theory, actuarial science, anthropology, or the history of emotions. Offering a new perspective on a key component of Western capitalism, this is the ideal resource for researches and scholars of intellectual, political and economic history in the modern Atlantic World.
Author |
: Paloma Fernández Pérez |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2023-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781801179508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1801179506 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries by : Paloma Fernández Pérez
Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries provides a historical account and a managerial approach on how companies in the service industry have grown, innovated, and internationalised along the last centuries in Western Europe.
Author |
: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2007-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253022653 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253022657 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Art and the Colonial Encounter by : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self representation, and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples, aesthetics, morals, artistic objects and practices, and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation.
Author |
: Stubbs |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 753 |
Release |
: 2023 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197502679 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197502679 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oxford Handbook of Commodities History by : Stubbs
"Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodities history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research, with new information technologies becoming increasingly important. Although many individual researchers continue to focus on particular commodities and regions, they often do so in partnership with others working on different areas and employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, placing commodities history at the forefront of local and global historical analysis. This Oxford Handbook features contributions from scholars involved in these developments across a range of countries and linguistic regions. They discuss the state of the art in their fields, draw on their own work, and signal lacunae for future research. Each of its 31 chapters focuses on an important thematic area within commodities history: key approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies. Taken together, the Oxford Handbook of Commodities History offers insight into the directions in which commodities history is heading, and the multiple ways in which it can contribute to a better understanding of the world"--