Author: Stephanie JonesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349073768
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Two Centuries Of Overseas Trading
Author: Stephanie JonesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349073768
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Merchants to Multinationals
Author: Geoffrey JonesPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191530468
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Merchants to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. While theories of the firm predict the demise over time of merchant firms, this book identifies the continued resilience of British trading companies despite the changing political and business environments of the twentieth century. Like Japanese trading companies, they 're-invented' themselves in successive generations. The competences of the trading companies resided in their information-gathering, relationship-building, human resource, and corporate governance systems. This book provides a new dimension to the literature on international business through the focus on multinational service firms and its evolutionary approach based on confidential business records.
Two Centuries of Tariffs
Author: John M. DobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tariff
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: W. E. MinchintonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100087995X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the growth of foreign trade between 1600 and 1775 which brought about a commercial revolution in England. English merchants developed the exchange of manufactured goods for primary products such as tobacco, sugar, cotton and silk. A notable feature of these years was the American orientation of English overseas trade. This expansion of commerce made a decisive contribution to national economic growth. Its implications for the economy as a whole and the process of industrialization are reviewed at length in the substantial introduction.
The Overseas Trade of British America
Author: Thomas M. TruxesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300161301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy In a single, readily digestible, coherent narrative, historian Thomas M. Truxes presents the three hundred–year history of the overseas trade of British America. Born from seeds planted in Tudor England in the sixteenth century, Atlantic trade allowed the initial survival, economic expansion, and later prosperity of British America, and brought vastly different geographical regions, each with a distinctive identity and economic structure, into a single fabric. Truxes shows how colonial American prosperity was only possible because of the labor of enslaved Africans, how the colonial economy became dependent on free and open markets, and how the young United States owed its survival in the struggle of the American Revolution to Atlantic trade.
The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Walter E. MinchintonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781003393221
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the growth of foreign trade between 1600 and 1775 which brought about a commercial revolution in England. English merchants developed the exchange of manufactured goods for primary products such as tobacco, sugar, cotton and silk. A notable feature of these years was the American orientation of English overseas trade. This expansion of commerce made a decisive contribution to national economic growth. Its implications for the economy as a whole and the process of industrialization are reviewed at length in the substantial introduction.
The Overseas Trade of Boston, 1279–1548
Author: Stephen H. RigbyPublisher: Böhlau Köln
ISBN: 3412526592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
At the start of the fourteenth century, Boston (Lincolnshire), was one of England's largest and wealthiest towns and played a leading role in the country's overseas trade, attracting merchants and commodities from as far afield as Italy, Gascony, the Low Countries, Germany and Scandinavia and was second only to London in many branches of trade. Yet, two centuries later, as the accounts of the royal customs reveal, Boston's overseas trade was of minor significance, as the capital came to dominate the nation's commerce at the expense of its provincial ports. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the evolution of the medieval English customs system and discusses the reliability of the sources which it generated. It brings together all the statistical data from Boston's enrolled customs accounts for the period from 1279 to 1548 concerning the fluctuations in volume of the port's trade, the transformation in the nature of its imports and exports and the changes in the origins of the merchants, whether English or alien, who traded there. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of medieval English towns and, in particular, to those concerned with Anglo-Hanseatic trade in the later Middle Ages.
A Primer of Dutch Seventeenth Century Overseas Trade
Author: David William DaviesPublisher:
ISBN: 9789401576130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Decline and Recovery in Britain’s Overseas Trade, 1873–1914
Author: D.C.M. PlattPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349109584
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
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.
A Primer of Dutch Seventeenth Century Overseas Trade
Author: David William DaviesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401576122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This volume is an attempt to give the American reader an idea of the extent of the Dutch network of trade in the seventeenth century. Although some effort is made to sketch out, however briefly, the activities of the Dutch in various regions throughout the century, emphas1s has been placed on their first entrance into these areas in that period. In each area the goods which the Netherlanders received have been indicated as well as the products they traded for them. The arrangement of the chapters calls for an explanation. Students of Dutch history will think of Surat and Persia as a natural unit, and of Malabar and Ceylon, Japan and China, West Africa and Brazil as being other entities which one would naturally discuss together. I have adopted the more obvious national divisions, Persia, India, Japan, Brazil, etc., as being more easily com prehensible for the casual reader. Within the chapters I have then explained the trade connections between West Africa and Brazil, Surat and Persia, and so forth.