The essays in this volume discuss the worldwide economic integration between 1850 and 1930, challenging the popular description of the period after 1918 as one of mere deglobalisation. The authors posit that markets were not only places of material exchange, but also socially structured entities, shaped by the agency of individual actors and by complex structures of political and economic power. Economic transactions were supported by an array of different institutions, ranging from formalized regulations to informal relations of personal trust. They argue that these networks were strong...
The essays in this volume discuss the worldwide economic integration between 1850 and 1930, challenging the popular description of the period after 19...
Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World provides a new perspective on economic globalization in the 19th and 20th century. 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 those actors responsible for conducting economic transactions in a multicultural business world. The study focusses on the Swiss merchant house Volkart Bros. which was one of the most important trading houses in British India after...
Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World provides a new perspective on economic globalization in the 19th and 20th
