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For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both
warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully
represented by the tin can - an invention which created a
revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of
the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The
trouble with tin was that economically viable deposits of the metal
could only be found in a few regions of the world, predominantly in
the southern hemisphere, while the main centers of consumption were
in the industrialized north. The tin trade was therefore a highly
politically charged economy in which states and private enterprise
competed and cooperated to assert control over deposits, smelters
and markets. Tin provides a particularly telling illustration of
how the interactions of business and governments shape the
evolution of the global economic trade; the tin industry has
experienced extensive state intervention during times of war,
encompasses intense competition and cartelization, and has seen
industry centers both thrive and fail in the wake of
decolonization. The history of the international tin industry
reveals the complex interactions and interdependencies between
local actors and international networks, decolonization and
globalization, as well as government foreign policies and
entrepreneurial tactics. By highlighting the global struggles for
control and the constantly shifting economic, geographical and
political constellations within one specific industry, this
collection of essays brings the state back into business history,
and the firm into the history of international relations.
This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether
the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the
resources they required during World War II. These studies of the
occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the
Nazis developed highly sophisticated instruments of exploitation
beyond oppression and looting. The authors highlight that in
comparison to the heavy manufacturing industries of Western Europe,
Norway could provide many raw materials that the German war machine
desperately needed, such as aluminium, nickel, molybdenum and fish.
These chapters demonstrate that the Nazis provided incentives to
foster economic collaboration, hoping that these would make every
mine, factory and smelter produce at its highest level of capacity.
All readers will learn about the unique part of Norwegian economic
collaboration during this period and discover the rich context of
economic collaboration across Europe during World War II.
For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both
warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully
represented by the tin can - an invention which created a
revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of
the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The
trouble with tin was that economically viable deposits of the metal
could only be found in a few regions of the world, predominantly in
the southern hemisphere, while the main centers of consumption were
in the industrialized north. The tin trade was therefore a highly
politically charged economy in which states and private enterprise
competed and cooperated to assert control over deposits, smelters
and markets. Tin provides a particularly telling illustration of
how the interactions of business and governments shape the
evolution of the global economic trade; the tin industry has
experienced extensive state intervention during times of war,
encompasses intense competition and cartelization, and has seen
industry centers both thrive and fail in the wake of
decolonization. The history of the international tin industry
reveals the complex interactions and interdependencies between
local actors and international networks, decolonization and
globalization, as well as government foreign policies and
entrepreneurial tactics. By highlighting the global struggles for
control and the constantly shifting economic, geographical and
political constellations within one specific industry, this
collection of essays brings the state back into business history,
and the firm into the history of international relations.
The rapid growth of the aluminium (or aluminum) industry during the
last hundred years reflects the status of aluminium as the
quintessentially modern metal. Given its impact on every facet of
modern life, its aptitude for academic analysis is only rivaled by
the versatility of the metal in industrial application. In the 19th
century, aluminium was the source of luxury goods for the rich few,
but during World War I, it was subjected to strategic
considerations by belligerent states, becoming a warfare metal. It
remained a military-strategic metal well into the 1950s before it
regained a position as a metal for civilian consumption, this time
for the masses. From Warfare to Welfare takes a historical
approach, informed by an institutionalist perspective, to elucidate
the political economy of the aluminium industry in the 20th
century. The book is structured as a series of analyses of the
interactions between the state and the corporations in different
countries. By looking at business-government relationships, the
book provides a better grasp on the linkages between the aluminium
industry and the two key features of the history of the 20th
century: the rise of the industrial warfare state and its
subsequent replacement by the welfare state. (Series: ROSTRA Books
Trondheim Studies in History - No. 9)
This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether
the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the
resources they required during World War II. These studies of the
occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the
Nazis developed highly sophisticated instruments of exploitation
beyond oppression and looting. The authors highlight that in
comparison to the heavy manufacturing industries of Western Europe,
Norway could provide many raw materials that the German war machine
desperately needed, such as aluminium, nickel, molybdenum and fish.
These chapters demonstrate that the Nazis provided incentives to
foster economic collaboration, hoping that these would make every
mine, factory and smelter produce at its highest level of capacity.
All readers will learn about the unique part of Norwegian economic
collaboration during this period and discover the rich context of
economic collaboration across Europe during World War II.
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