The Globalization of Merchant Banking before 1850: The case of Huth & Co. Contributor(s): Llorca-Jaña, Manuel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848936079 ISBN-13: 9781848936072 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Investments & Securities - General - Business & Economics | Economic History - Business & Economics | Banks & Banking |
Dewey: 332.66 |
LCCN: 2015021303 |
Series: Financial History |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.97 lbs) 184 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 period This book will be of great interest to business and economic historians interested in the nature of the early decades of the first globalization. |