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The Development of International Insurance
Despite their economic and social importance, there are relatively few book-length studies of national insurance industries. This collection of nine essays by a group of international experts redresses this balance; providing an extensive geographical and thematic spread, linked via an extensive introduction.
Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa
This book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy. It explores their demand for Indian cotton textiles and how their consumption shaped patterns of global trade, influencing economies and businesses from Western Europe to South Asia. In turn, the book examines how cotton textile production in southern India responded to this demand. Through this perspective of a south-south economic history, the study foregrounds African agency and considers the lasting impact on production and exports in South Asia. It also considers how European commercial and imperial expansion provided a complex web of networks, linking West African consumers and Indian weavers. Crucially, it demonstrates the emergence of the modern global economy.
Consumerism in World History
The third edition of Consumerism in World History explores the nature of consumerism and its evolution, with particular emphasis on the modern “consumer revolution” and its global scope. The book deals with crucial interpretive issues, such as whether consumerism is a natural human expression or involves other causes, the relationship between consumer apparatus (such as shops and advertising) and human needs, and the interplay between Western and other regional forms of consumerism. It covers major historical moments and changes, including the consumer revolution in Western society beginning in the 17th century and regional cultural patterns from the 19th century onward. This is a substantially revised edition, with updated suggested readings, rewritten sections on premodern consumerism in agricultural societies, and globalization and consumerism, and expanded coverage of major regions like India and Latin America. This volume is essential reading for all students of world history and will be of great value to those in business history and environmental history.
Capitalists, Business and State-Building in Chile
Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors. The chapters in this book, the first in English on the history of Chilean business, focus on the importance of diversified family business groups in twentieth-century Chile, their dynamics, organisation, and management, and their interaction with foreign investors and the state. Using a range of company and government archives, as well as other contemporary sources in Chile, Britain, and the United States, the individual authors pay particular attention to many key topics: the evolution of the Edwards family businesses, those of Pascual Baburizza, Chilean corporate networks, British firms in the nitrate industry, the Anglo South American Bank, the Copec group, Compañía Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego, the energy sector, SOFOFA (the industrialists’ association), and the recent growth of Chilean multinationals.
The Globalization of Merchant Banking before 1850
London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American war of 1812. Though the majority of merchant bankers remained cautious in their affairs, Huth & Co established an impressive global network of trade and lending, dealing with over 6,000 correspondents in more than seventy countries. Based on archival research, this comparative study provides a new chronology of early nineteenth-century commercial and financial expansion.Huth & Co. were truly market-makers and key intermediaries of commodities and capital flows in the international economy. This is an important example of a firm shaping globalisation well before the transport and communication revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. But rather than a case study, this is a comparative study concerned with the commercial and financial activities of the leading merchant-bankers of the periodThis book will be of great interest to business and economic historians interested in the nature of the early decades of the first globalization.
Empire of Things
The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British Empire to the present. Astonishingly wide-ranging and richly detailed, Empire of Things explores how we have come to live with so much more, how this changed the course of history, and the global challenges we face as a result.
A Sea of Love
A Sea of Love presents 95 letters exchanged between Hamburg and Antebellum USA by the famous Berlin born scholar, encyclopedist, and knowledge broker Francis Lieber (1798-1872) and his wife, Hamburg born Mathilde in 1839-1845. Their letters offer rare insights in the privacy of marriage and family life, self perceptions, notions of surroundings, as well as mental settings of the spouses. Beyond genuine individual phenomena of their Atlantic emotions their epistles show ways and methods of international communication and networking. Their writings reflect general notions and ideas shared by well-educated citizens of an Atlantic Republic of Letters connected by culture, interests, and emotions.
The British Textile Trade in South America in the Nineteenth Century
This is the first work on British textile exports to South America during the nineteenth century. During this period, textiles ranked among the most important manufactures traded in the world market and Britain was the foremost producer. Thanks to new data, this book demonstrates that British exports to South America were transacted at very high rates during the first decades after independence. This development was due to improvements in the packing of textiles; decreasing costs of production and introduction of free trade in Britain; falling ocean freight rates, marine insurance and import duties in South America; dramatic improvements in communications; and the introduction of better port facilities. Manuel Llorca-Jaña explores the marketing chain of textile exports to South America and sheds light on South Americans' consumer behaviour. This book contains the most comprehensive database on Anglo-South American trade during the nineteenth century and fills an important gap in the historiography.
Geschichte Lateinamerikas seit dem 15. Jahrhundert
1492 traf die Expedition des Genuesen Christoph Kolumbus in der Karibik ein. Zahlreiche weitere europäische Unternehmungen sollten folgen. Welten prallten aufeinander und es entstand im Laufe der Zeit eine andere, neue Welt: Lateinamerika. Deren mehr als fünfhundertjährige Geschichte wird in vier großen Kapiteln behandelt. Sie umfassen die Zeit vom Eintreffen der Europäer bis zum Sieg der Engländer in Nordamerika, die Epoche von den aufgeklärten Reformen bis zur Konsolidierung der unabhängigen Staaten, die Periode vom Beginn der Industrialisierung bis zur Weltwirtschaftskrise und die Umwälzungen seit den 1930er Jahren bis zu den jüngsten Entwicklungen. Dabei werden die politischen Auseinandersetzungen, die wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen, die Herausbildung multipler Ethnizitäten und die Entstehung hybrider Kulturen nachgezeichnet. Der Wandel und die Kontinuität der Verknüpfungen Lateinamerikas mit anderen Weltregionen werden ebenso thematisiert. Daraus ergibt sich ein grundlegender Überblick und eine umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte einer vernetzten Welt im Wandel.
Don Juan O´Brien
Este libro es el primer estudio sobre Don Juan O’Brien, uno de los personajes irlandeses más relevantes para la historia de las independencias sudamericanas. O’Brien, oriundo de Baltinglass, Irlanda, arribó a Buenos Aires a principios del siglo XIX atraído por el floreciente comercio textil entre ambos continentes. Al poco tiempo se vio envuelto en las batallas contra el dominio español, siendo parte de los ejércitos libertadores de la región. Participó en las independencias de Argentina, Chile, Perú y Uruguay, relacionándose con los generales más famosos de ese período: José de San Martín y Simón Bolívar. Vivió en Chile y otros países de la región, fue un gran promotor...
