Resumen
London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American war of 1812. Though the majority of merchant bankers remained cautious in their affairs, Huth & Co established an impressive global network of trade and lending, dealing with over 6,000 correspondents in more than seventy countries. Based on archival research, this comparative study provides a new chronology of early nineteenth-century commercial and financial expansion.Huth & Co. were truly market-makers and key intermediaries of commodities and capital flows in the international economy. This is an important example of a firm shaping globalisation well before the transport and communication revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. But rather than a case study, this is a comparative study concerned with the commercial and financial activities of the leading merchant-bankers of the periodThis book will be of great interest to business and economic historians interested in the nature of the early decades of the first globalization.
Idioma original | Inglés |
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Título de la publicación alojada | The Globalization of Merchant Banking before 1850 |
Subtítulo de la publicación alojada | The Case of Huth and Co. |
Editorial | Taylor and Francis |
Páginas | 1-168 |
Número de páginas | 168 |
ISBN (versión digital) | 9781351543941 |
ISBN (versión impresa) | 9781848936072 |
DOI | |
Estado | Publicada - 1 ene. 2017 |