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Author : D C M Platt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349182540
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Britain’s Investment Overseas on the Eve of the First World War written by D C M Platt and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Desmond Christopher Martin Platt
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312096731
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (967 download)
Download or read book Britain's Investment Overseas on the Eve of the First World War written by Desmond Christopher Martin Platt and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Broadberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139448358
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Economics of World War I written by Stephen Broadberry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.
Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317398106
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Impact of the First World War on International Business written by Andrew Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People throughout the world are now commemorating the centenary of the start of the First World War. For historians of international business and finance, it is an opportunity to reflect on the impact of the war on global business activity. The world economy was highly integrated in the early twentieth century thanks to nearly a century of globalisation. In 1913, the economies of the countries that were about to go war seemed inextricably linked. The Impact of the First World War on International Business explores what happened to international business organisations when this integrated global economy was shattered by the outbreak of a major war. Studying how companies responded to the economic catastrophe of the First World War offers important lessons to policymakers and businesspeople in the present, concerning for instance the impact of great power politics on international business or the thesis that globalization reduces the likelihood of inter-state warfare. This is the first book to focus on the impact of the First World War on international business. It explores the experiences of firms in Britain, France, Germany, Japan, China, and the United States as well as those in neutral countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden, and Argentina, covering a wide range of industries including financial services, mining, manufacturing, foodstuffs, and shipping. Studying how firms responded to sudden and dramatic change in the geopolitical environment in 1914 offers lessons to the managers of today’s MNEs, since the world economy on the eve of the First World War has many striking parallels with the present. Aimed at researchers, academics and advanced students in the fields of Business History, International Management and Accounting History; this book goes beyond the extant literature on this topic namely due to the broad range of industries and countries covered. The Impact of the First World War on International Business covers a broad range of geographical areas and topics examining how private firms responded to government policy and have based their contributions mainly on primary sources created by business people.
Author : Mira Wilkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674396661
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (966 download)
Download or read book The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914 written by Mira Wilkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the colonial era to 1914, America was a debtor nation in international accounts--owing more to foreigners than foreigners owed to us. By 1914 it was the world's largest debtor nation. Mira Wilkins provides the first complete history of foreign investment in the United States during that period. The book shows why the United States was attractive to foreign investors and traces the changing role of foreign capital in the nation's development, covering both portfolio and direct investment. The immense new wave of foreign investment in the United States today, and our return to the status of a debtor nation--once again the world's largest debtor nation--makes this strong exposition far more than just historically interesting. Wilkins reviews foreign portfolio investments in government securities (federal, state, and local) and in corporate stocks and bonds, as well as foreign direct investments in land and real estate, manufacturing plants, and even such service-sector activities as accounting, insurance, banking, and mortgage lending. She finds that between 1776 and 1875, public-sector securities (principally federal and state securities) drew in the most long-term foreign investment, whereas from 1875 to 1914 the private sector was the main attraction. The construction of the American railroad system called on vast portfolio investments from abroad; there was also sizable direct investment in mining, cattle ranching, the oil industry, the chemical industry, flour production, and breweries, as well as the production of rayon, thread, and even submarines. In addition, there were foreign stakes in making automobile and electrical and nonelectrical machinery. America became the leading industrial country of the world at the very time when it was a debtor nation in world accounts.
Author : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719036002
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book British Economic and Social History written by R. C. Richardson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P.J. Cain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317389255
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book British Imperialism written by P.J. Cain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A milestone in the understanding of British history and imperialism, this ground-breaking book radically reinterprets the course of modern economic development and the causes of overseas expansion during the past three centuries. Employing their concept of 'gentlemanly capitalism', the authors draw imperial and domestic British history together to show how the shape of the nation and its economy depended on international and imperial ties, and how these ties were undone to produce the post-colonial world of today. Containing a significantly expanded and updated Foreword and Afterword, this third edition assesses the development of the debate since the book’s original publication, discusses the imperial era in the context of the controversy over globalization, and shows how the study of the age of empires remains relevant to understanding the post-colonial world. Covering the full extent of the British empire from China to South America and taking a broad chronological view from the seventeenth century to post-imperial Britain today, British Imperialism: 1688–2015 is the perfect read for all students of imperial and global history.
Author : Simon Ville
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811904812
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book International Business in Australia before World War One written by Simon Ville and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges conventional wisdom by revealing an extensive and heterogeneous community of foreign businesses in Australia before 1914. Multinational enterprise arrived predominantly from Britain, but other sender nations included the USA, France, Germany, New Zealand, and Japan. Their firms spread out across Australia from mining and pastoral communities, to portside industries and CBD precincts, and they operated broadly across mining, trading, shipping, insurance, finance, and manufacturing. They were a remarkably diverse population of firms by size, organisational form, and longevity. This is a rare study of the impact of multinationals on a host nation, particularly before World War One, and that focuses on a successful resource-based economy. Deploying a database of more than 600 firms, supported by contemporary archives and publications, the work reveals how multinational influence was contested by domestic enterprise, other foreign firms, and the strategic investments of governments in network industries. Nonetheless, foreign agency – particularly investment, knowledge and entrepreneurship – mattered in the economic development of Australia in the nineteenth as well as the twentieth centuries. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in Australian and international economic and business history, the history of economic growth and scholars of international business.
Author : D.C.M. Platt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349109584
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Decline and Recovery in Britain’s Overseas Trade, 1873–1914 written by D.C.M. Platt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long there has been an unquestioning acceptance that Britain's economic decline began long before the First World War. By focusing on international trade in the 1873-1914 period this book analyses the facts behind this myth, examining Britain's performance in comparison with that of its major rivals in the very areas where they came into competition with each other. What emerges is a much more complex picture of both losses and gains, in which Britain's position gradually adjusted to a changing world economic order, and appeared to be doing so remarkably successfully.
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Author : Will Kaufman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851094369
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Britain and the Americas [3 volumes] written by Will Kaufman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive encyclopedia covering the close ties between Britain and the whole of the Americas, examining Britain's cultural and political legacy to the nations of the New World. From Vikings to redcoats, from the Beatles to the war in Iraq, Britain and the Americas examines Britain's cultural and political legacy to the nations of the Americas. This comprehensive survey also traces how the Americas have in turn influenced contemporary Britain from the Americanization of language and politics to the impact of music and migration from the West Indies. Complete with an extensive introduction and a chronology of key events, this three-volume encyclopedia contains introductory essays focusing on the four prime areas of British Atlantic engagement—Canada, the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America. Students of a wide range of disciplines, as well as the lay reader, will appreciate this exhaustive survey, which traces the common themes of British policy and influence throughout the Americas and highlights how Britain has in turn benefited from the influence of American democracy, technology, culture and politics.
Author : Michael Twomey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134569211
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book A Century of Foreign Investment in the Third World written by Michael Twomey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late twentieth century has witnessed a dramatic upsurge in foreign direct investment in the Third World. Based upon thorough statistical analysis, the book presents exhaustive case-studies of foreign investment policy in 'metropolitan' countries and of the experiences of 'host' countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. With a wide geographical and historical focus, it also makes an important contribution to current debates on dependency theory.
Author : Peter Dewey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317900146
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book War and Progress written by Peter Dewey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of how the daily lives of ordinary peoples were changed, profoundly and permanently, by these three momentous decades 1914-1945. Often depicted in negative terms Peter Dewey finds a much more positive pattern in the wealth of evidence he lays before us. His is a story of economic achievement, and the emergence of a new sense of social community in the nation, rather than a saga of disenchantment and decline.
Author : Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521812900
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume 2, The Long Twentieth Century written by Victor Bulmer-Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-23 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Latin America's economic development.
Author : Geoffrey Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198206026
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)
Download or read book British Multinational Banking, 1830-1990 written by Geoffrey Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the emergence, growth and performance from the 1830s to the present
Author : Geoffrey Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000144097
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Making of Global Enterprises written by Geoffrey Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides new insights to the history of international business. The international group of authors, drawn from the United States, Canada, Britain and Japan, address two main themes: How has global business developed over the last century? And what has been its impact on host economies? These original and wide-ranging essays, prefaced by an extensive editorial introduction, are required reading in courses on international business.
Author : Jean Jacques Van Helten
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781959411
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Capitalism in a Mature Economy written by Jean Jacques Van Helten and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This important, well edited.... collection of essays focuses primarily on the contentious relationship between finance and industry, revealing the jury to be still out on the thorny question of the City" culpability. David Kynaston, The Financial Times "An extremely useful and informative volume. Michael Collins, University of Leeds, UKCapitalism in a Mature Economy charts the development of the City as the undisputed financial centre of the world in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, reflecting Britain's dominant position in the world economy. The book focuses on four inter-related themes: the development and operations of English capital markets including the stock exchange and the clearing and merchant banks, the financing of British industry, the role of financiers and company promoters, and the financing of British overseas capital investment and trade.
Author : Rondo Cameron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195345126
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book International Banking 1870-1914 written by Rondo Cameron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the product of a unique international scholarly collaboration sponsored jointly by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Soviet Academy of Sciences, provides a comprehensive survey on international banking from 1870 to 1914. In that period international investment reached dimensions previously unknown, and the banking systems of the world achieved a degree of internationalization without precedent. The book's authors, twenty-five scholars from fifteen countries, are the acknowledged experts in their fields. They detail the origin and development of internationally oriented banks in each major country, and explain their role in foreign investment and industrial finance. They look at all areas of the world that were involved in international investment, either as investors, recipients of investment, or both. The definitive work on international banking from 1870 to 1914, this book will interest scholars and students in financial and banking history, bankers and economists in the finanical industry, and general historians.
