Merchant Capital C

ISBN-13: 9780198226253 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 864 str.

Fieldhouse

Opis

The United Africa Company, formed in 1929, was the largest single commercial organization in West and Equatorial Africa. This is a comprehensive and detailed account of its history based on unrestricted access to the archives. It is the first published history of the company and fills a serious gap in modern African economic history.

Recenzje

this is a significant addition to the small number of good business histories of British concerns operating in Africa and an important contribution to literature on economic aspects of colonialism and African economic developments ... this study will be eagerly received for the light it sheds upon controversies surrounding European capital ... Merchant capital and economic decolonization ... advances our understanding of the activities of merchant capital on a number of fronts ... taken as a whole it offers an important contribution to our knowledge of the changing profile of British business overseas. The book is throughout written in Fieldhouse's characteristically accessible prose.