Gebundenes Buch

Creating Global Capitalism

Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy

Herausgeber: Storli, Espen; Boon, Marten

Beschreibung

This book provides an insight into the world of commodity trading companies, depicted as the hidden companies of the global economy and showcases how they were instrumental in bringing about the economic integration of new commodities and far-flung regions into the first global economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Autor

Espen Storli is Professor of History at the Department of History and Modern Society at NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research interests include the history of natural resource extraction, commodity trading, and cartels. Marten Boon is Lecturer in History of International Relations at Utrecht University. He holds a PhD in economic and business history from Erasmus University. His research interest focuses on the business and transnational history of energy, with a particular focus on the oil and gas industry in the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781032851334
• ISBN-10: 1032851333
• Artikelnr.: 70372760