Commodity trading, globalization and the colonial world : spinning the web of the global market
著者
書誌事項
Commodity trading, globalization and the colonial world : spinning the web of the global market
(Routledge international studies in business history)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
- タイトル別名
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Fèaden des globalen Marktes
大学図書館所蔵 全7件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
"Other titles: Fèaden des globalen Marktes"--CIP
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-366) and indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
Introduction
Part 1: European Expansions
1. From Winterthur to Bombay: The Establishment of the Firm
2. From the Indian Coast to the Hinterland - The Birth of a Large-Scale Enterprise
3. Banks, Commodity Exchanges and Agencies: The Organization of Sales in Europe
4. "We are a Swiss firm, thank God!": World War I and the Meaning of National Origins
Part 2: Looking behind the Scenes
5. The Owner Family
6. Keeping Everyone in the Fold: The Employees and the Corporate Family
7. Working in Colonial India
Part 3: The De-Europeanization of Global Markets
8. An Era of Crises: Europe After 1918
9. Growing Self-confidence: India After 1918
10. Expansion East and West: Extending the Business to China, Japan and the United States
11. Machinery for Asia
Part 4: State Interventions and Multinational Trading Companies
12. The Consequences of Decolonization
13. Entering the Coffee Trade
14. The Cotton Trade after World War II
Conclusion
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