Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
THE EMERGENCE OF A WORLD ECONOMY 1500-1914: PAPERS OF THE IX INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ECONOMIC HISTORY. PART II: 1850-1914
Author: The Emergence of a World Economy 1500-1914
Author: The Emergence of a World Economy
Author: Wolfram FischerThe Emergence of a World Economy Fifteen Hundred - 1914
Author: Wolfram FischerThe emergence of a world economy 1500-1914
Author: Wolfram FischerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783515047487
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Emergence of a World Economy, 1500-1914: 1500-1850
Author: Wolfram FischerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Handbook of World Exchange Rates, 1590–1914
Author: Markus A DenzelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351931725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
As a world economy emerged from the 16th-17th centuries onwards, a global cashless payment system arose. This had its base in Europe, first in Italy, then in the rising regions of the north-west, with Amsterdam and then London as the central financial market. The mutual quotation of exchange rates, which provide the data tabulated and analysed here, mark the integration into a global network of all areas with significant economic potential. The primary aim of this book is to provide a compact account of the exchange rates in all these financial markets, from the late 16th century up to the First World War. This makes possible an instant conversion between the major world currencies at nearly any date within that period, while the important introduction provides the explanation and context of developments. The present handbook therefore serves as an invaluable resource for those concerned with all aspects of commercial and financial history.
John Bullion's Empire
Author: G. BalachandranPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136790578
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Study of the impact of Britain's economic and financial crises on currency and monetary policy-making in India between the wars, analysing colonial policies during Anglo-US efforts to reconstruct the international financial system and Britain's struggle to restore the pre-eminence of sterling and the City.
A World History of the Seas
Author: Michael NorthPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350145459
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years. Exploring the challenges and dangers of the oceans that humans have struggled with for centuries, he also shows the possibilities and opportunities they have provided from antiquity to the modern day. Written to demonstrate the global connectivity of the seas, but also to highlight regional maritime power during different eras, A World History of the Seas takes sailors, merchants and migrants as the protagonists of these histories and explores how their experiences and perceptions of the seas were consolidated through trade and cultural exchange. Bringing together the various maritime historiographies of the world and underlining their unity, this book shows how the ocean has been a vital and natural space of globalization. Carrying goods, creating alliances, linking continents and conveying culture, the history of the ocean played a central role in creating our modern globalized world.
Rice and Industrialisation in Asia
Author: A.J.H. LathamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100051675X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This book is about the introduction of modern power-driven rice milling to the main rice exporting countries of Burma (Myanmar), Siam (Thailand) and French Indo-China (Vietnam) from 1869. Rich in historical and empirical sources, the book draws extensively from the London Rice Brokers’ Association Circular archives, published monthly from 1869 to 2014, as well as numerical data gathered from historic trade and custom reports. It outlines how rice had been exported in the husk to be milled in Britain prior to 1869, after which mills were transferred to Asia and the rice shipped back having been milled. Rice processed in Asia is explained not only as a major saving in transport costs, but the marker of a crucial step in the industrialisation of Asia – namely through the introduction of modern mechanised value adding rice mills powered by steam engines. This is a reversal of the concept that the development of modern technology de-industrialised Asia, turning it into a supplier of raw materials. Later chapters address the inter-war years, when Chinese companies in particular took over the operation of mills and developed an Asia-wide market for rice milled in the great milling centers of Rangoon (Yangon), Bangkok and Saigon (Ho Chi Minh). Rice and Industrialisation in Asia will prove a valuable resource to students and scholars of economic history, postcolonial studies, and Asian studies more broadly.