Case studies by scholars in the fields of literature, history, and political economy which explore the origins and development of such practices as ethical investment and the politics of consumer boycott, and the attitudes behind them. The focus is on British and German actors between the early eighteenth and the twentieth centuries.
Case studies by scholars in the fields of literature, history, and political economy which explore the origins and development of such practices as ethical investment and the politics of consumer boycott, and the attitudes behind them. The focus is on British and German actors between the early eighteenth and the twentieth centuries.
Felix Brahm is Deputy Professor of Global History at the University of Hamburg. His publications include Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe 1680-1850 (edited with Eve Rosenhaft, 2016) and Merchandise of Power: Arms Trade and Control between Europe and East Africa, 1850-1919 (forthcoming 2021). Eve Rosenhaft is Professor Emerita of German Historical Studies at the University of Liverpool. Her most recent publications include Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe 1680-1850 (edited with Felix Brahm, 2016) and Mnemonic Solidarity-Global Interventions (edited with Jie-Hyun Lim, 2021).
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Introduction * 2: The Lure and Evils of the International Market: German Cameralists and the Modern Economy * 3: Framing John Law: G(u)ilt, Fiction, and Finance * 4: Morals on the Margins: Commerce, Trust, and Public Service in Louisbourg, 1758-1760 * 5: Virtue in Progress: Morality, National Character, and the East India Company * 6: Political Economy, Moral Philosophy, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Tobias Smollett's Vision of Global Commerce in the Scottish Enlightenment * 7: 'For how could we do without sugar and rum?': Anti-Consumption, Commodity Substitution, and the Global Expansion of Plantation Production * 8: 'Oh, wonderful sugar beet! You are the death of the bloody sugar cane': The German Debate on the Morality of the Consumption of Sugar Produced by Slave Labour around 1800 * 9: John Holt's Economic Conscience * 10: Moralizing the Liquor Trade in German West Africa, 1884-1914 * 11: The Moral Economy of Modern Pearling * 12: Westminster and the Eradication of Slavery in Business Supply Chains: Past, Present, and Future
* 1: Introduction * 2: The Lure and Evils of the International Market: German Cameralists and the Modern Economy * 3: Framing John Law: G(u)ilt, Fiction, and Finance * 4: Morals on the Margins: Commerce, Trust, and Public Service in Louisbourg, 1758-1760 * 5: Virtue in Progress: Morality, National Character, and the East India Company * 6: Political Economy, Moral Philosophy, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Tobias Smollett's Vision of Global Commerce in the Scottish Enlightenment * 7: 'For how could we do without sugar and rum?': Anti-Consumption, Commodity Substitution, and the Global Expansion of Plantation Production * 8: 'Oh, wonderful sugar beet! You are the death of the bloody sugar cane': The German Debate on the Morality of the Consumption of Sugar Produced by Slave Labour around 1800 * 9: John Holt's Economic Conscience * 10: Moralizing the Liquor Trade in German West Africa, 1884-1914 * 11: The Moral Economy of Modern Pearling * 12: Westminster and the Eradication of Slavery in Business Supply Chains: Past, Present, and Future
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