Creating Global Capitalism

Creating Global Capitalism

Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy

Storli, Espen; Boon, Marten

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2024

152

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9781032851334

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Introduction: Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy 1. From traders to planters: The evolving role and importance of trading companies in the 19th century Anglo-Indian Indigo trade 2. Foreign merchant businesses and the integration of the Black and Azov Seas of the Russian Empire into the First global economy 3. Sourcing and shipping museum objects from East Africa to the Smithsonian, 1887-1891 4. Global trading companies in the commodity chain of rubber between 1890 and the 1920s 5. Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian soybean trade: Geopolitics and economic strategies in China's Northeast, ca. 1870s-1920s 6. Branding and retail strategy in the condensed milk trade: Borden and Nestle in East Asia, 1870-1929 7. Natural born merchants. The Hudson Bay Company, science and Canada's final fur frontiers (1925-1931)
First global economy;Commodity Trading;Global Value Chains;Globalisation;Natural Resources