The Globalization of Merchant Banking before 1850 - The case of Huth & Co. (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Financial History
Release date:	October 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Manuel Llorca-Jana
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-1-84893-607-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Banking Books > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > Money & Finance > Banking
LSN:	1-84893-607-9
Barcode:	9781848936072

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