Sarah Dietz

Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire (eBook, PDF)

Colonialism, Collaboration and Exploitation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book illustrates how entrepreneurial styles formed and evolved in the post-family capitalist era, how ambitious businessmen navigated socio-commercial networks, or the group system, to gain access to a highly-integrated system of capital cooperation, to disguised monopolies and interests interlinked.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000299557
• Artikelnr.: 60770657

Autorenporträt

Sarah Dietz is a textile specialist who has received awards from the Royal Society of Arts and the Worshipful Company of Weavers in association with the Textile Institute. Following a successful career in the British textile industry, currently she works as an independent historian, specialising in the history of entrepreneurship.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One

The Company Prospectus and the Opportunity for Jute Growing in Assam



India and Eastern Trading Company The Prospectus



Chapter Two

German Enterprise in the British Empire



Alexander Classen - The Founder



Chapter Three

The Role of the Company Promoter in Joint-Stock Enterprise



Henry Theodore Van Laun - The Promoter



Chapter Four

Networks, Patronage and their International Diffusion



Eugene Auguste Digby - The Fundraiser



Chapter Five

Gentlemanly Capitalism and Britain's Informal Empire in South America



Stanley William Ford - The Chairman



Chapter Six

International Corporate Governance and Creating a Competitive Investment Culture in Joint-Stock Companies



Hugo Likiernik - The Company Secretary



Chapter Seven

Chamberlainism and the Impact of Increasing Anglo-German Antagonism on Commerce



William Burton Stewart - The Politician



Chapter Eight

The Plantation Economy, Jute Cultivation and Land Speculation



Bronislaw Oderfeld - The Industrialist



Chapter Nine

Rebranding and Refinancing Colonial Enterprise



John Henry Grayson Riley - The Capitalist



Chapter Ten

The Amalgamation of Colonial Plantations During the First World War



George St. Lawrence Mowbray - The Amalgamator



Conclusion

Index