Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market

ISBN-13: 9780367735289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 378 str.

Christof Dejung

Opis

By connecting established approaches from business history with recent scholarship in the fields of global history and postcolonial studies 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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Christof Dejung is a professor in modern history at the University of Bern, Switzerland.