Author: Christopher Hanes
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1839091819
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Research in Economic History is a well-established publication presenting influential work by leading researchers in the field of economic history, including economists, historians, and demographers.
Research in Economic History
Author: Christopher Hanes
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1839091819
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Research in Economic History is a well-established publication presenting influential work by leading researchers in the field of economic history, including economists, historians, and demographers.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1839091819
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Research in Economic History is a well-established publication presenting influential work by leading researchers in the field of economic history, including economists, historians, and demographers.
Banking in China (1890s–1940s)
Author: Hubert Bonin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000054454
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From the 1890s to the 1940s, French State and entrepreneurial companies were enticed to promote French interests, beyond mere colonial targets, for the sake of economic patriotism. Chinese concessions, not including Hong Kong, were thus inserted into geo-economic moves, and French stakeholders asserted their philosophy of competition, and displayed their means of influence and investment. In this book, the author assesses the challenges which confronted French actors in the face of powerful British imperial action overseas, all the more so because German Belgian, Japanese, and then also North-American competitors joined the fray. The book targets three concessions: Canton/Guangzhou, Tientsin/Tianjin, and Hankeou/Wuhan because of their significance in the emergence of a modern economy in the country. The three main sections of the book explore the position of French stakeholders, mainly businessmen, merchant houses, bankers, and a few industrialists, in these three port-cities and China overall. The chapters gauge their capital of influence and networking, commercial tools, and banking skills in the face of competition, the hardships of crossing the changes in economic productive systems or clusters in the various port-cities and their areas, rich with commercial offshoots. Also, several chapters underscore the uncertainties caused by geopolitical and military events in China. For each of the three concessions, commercial and banking systems, assessments of the successes and limits of the French bankers and merchants are investigated, with the aim of evaluating the reality of French entrepreneurialism and power in the regions prospected by the offshoots of French capitalism. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics interested in the history of banking and finance, business, entrepreneurship, colonialism and "economic patriotism" in Chinese history, in geo-economics and in connected history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000054454
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From the 1890s to the 1940s, French State and entrepreneurial companies were enticed to promote French interests, beyond mere colonial targets, for the sake of economic patriotism. Chinese concessions, not including Hong Kong, were thus inserted into geo-economic moves, and French stakeholders asserted their philosophy of competition, and displayed their means of influence and investment. In this book, the author assesses the challenges which confronted French actors in the face of powerful British imperial action overseas, all the more so because German Belgian, Japanese, and then also North-American competitors joined the fray. The book targets three concessions: Canton/Guangzhou, Tientsin/Tianjin, and Hankeou/Wuhan because of their significance in the emergence of a modern economy in the country. The three main sections of the book explore the position of French stakeholders, mainly businessmen, merchant houses, bankers, and a few industrialists, in these three port-cities and China overall. The chapters gauge their capital of influence and networking, commercial tools, and banking skills in the face of competition, the hardships of crossing the changes in economic productive systems or clusters in the various port-cities and their areas, rich with commercial offshoots. Also, several chapters underscore the uncertainties caused by geopolitical and military events in China. For each of the three concessions, commercial and banking systems, assessments of the successes and limits of the French bankers and merchants are investigated, with the aim of evaluating the reality of French entrepreneurialism and power in the regions prospected by the offshoots of French capitalism. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics interested in the history of banking and finance, business, entrepreneurship, colonialism and "economic patriotism" in Chinese history, in geo-economics and in connected history.
Contraband
Author: Michael Kwass
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674369645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trade excited a revolution in consumption that transformed the French kingdom. Contraband exposes the dark side of this early phase of globalization, revealing hidden connections between illicit commerce, criminality, and popular revolt. France's economic system was tailor-made for an enterprising outlaw like Mandrin. As French subjects began to crave colonial products, Louis XIV lined the royal coffers by imposing a state monopoly on tobacco from America and an embargo on brilliantly colored calico cloth from India. Vigorous black markets arose through which traffickers fed these exotic goods to eager French consumers. Flouting the law with unparalleled panache, Mandrin captured widespread public attention to become a symbol of a defiant underground. This furtive economy generated violent clashes between gangs of smugglers and customs agents in the borderlands. Eventually, Mandrin was captured by French troops and put to death in a brutal public execution intended to demonstrate the king's absolute authority. But the spectacle only cemented Mandrin's status as a rebel folk hero in an age of mounting discontent. Amid cycles of underground rebellion and agonizing penal repression, the memory of Mandrin inspired ordinary subjects and Enlightenment philosophers alike to challenge royal power and forge a movement for radical political change.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674369645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trade excited a revolution in consumption that transformed the French kingdom. Contraband exposes the dark side of this early phase of globalization, revealing hidden connections between illicit commerce, criminality, and popular revolt. France's economic system was tailor-made for an enterprising outlaw like Mandrin. As French subjects began to crave colonial products, Louis XIV lined the royal coffers by imposing a state monopoly on tobacco from America and an embargo on brilliantly colored calico cloth from India. Vigorous black markets arose through which traffickers fed these exotic goods to eager French consumers. Flouting the law with unparalleled panache, Mandrin captured widespread public attention to become a symbol of a defiant underground. This furtive economy generated violent clashes between gangs of smugglers and customs agents in the borderlands. Eventually, Mandrin was captured by French troops and put to death in a brutal public execution intended to demonstrate the king's absolute authority. But the spectacle only cemented Mandrin's status as a rebel folk hero in an age of mounting discontent. Amid cycles of underground rebellion and agonizing penal repression, the memory of Mandrin inspired ordinary subjects and Enlightenment philosophers alike to challenge royal power and forge a movement for radical political change.
2009
Author: Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110317494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110317494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A Past of Possibilities
Author: Quentin Deluermoz
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030022754X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had run another course? Touching on alternate histories of the future and the past, or uchronias, A Past of Possibilities encourages deeper consideration of watershed moments in the course of history. Wide-ranging in scope, it examines the Boxer Rebellion in China, the 1848 revolution in France, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and integrates science fiction, history, historiography, sociology, anthropology, and film. In probing the genre of literature and history that is fascinated with hypotheticals surrounding key points in history, Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou reach beyond a mere reimagining of history, exploring the limits and potentials of the futures past. From the most bizarre fiction to serious scientific hypothesis, they provide a survey of the uses of counterfactual histories, methodological issues on the possible in social sciences, and practical proposals for using alternate histories in research and the wider public.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030022754X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had run another course? Touching on alternate histories of the future and the past, or uchronias, A Past of Possibilities encourages deeper consideration of watershed moments in the course of history. Wide-ranging in scope, it examines the Boxer Rebellion in China, the 1848 revolution in France, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and integrates science fiction, history, historiography, sociology, anthropology, and film. In probing the genre of literature and history that is fascinated with hypotheticals surrounding key points in history, Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou reach beyond a mere reimagining of history, exploring the limits and potentials of the futures past. From the most bizarre fiction to serious scientific hypothesis, they provide a survey of the uses of counterfactual histories, methodological issues on the possible in social sciences, and practical proposals for using alternate histories in research and the wider public.
La croissance en économie ouverte (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles)
Author: Bertrand Blancheton
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052014982
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : fr
Pages : 468
Book Description
Cet ouvrage regroupe les compagnons de route intellectuels de Jean-Charles Asselain, professeur émérite de l'Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, en un « livre d'hommages » à son rayonnement pédagogique et à son action de recherche. En effet, au fil de sa carrière, J.-C. Asselain n'a cessé de développer et de défendre la thèse d'une « économie ouverte », phénomène aux multiples facettes. L'ouverture économique est d'une part commerciale, à travers les échanges de marchandises et de services, d'autre part financière, à travers la mobilité internationale des capitaux; mais elle est aussi humaine via les mouvements migratoires et concerne la diffusion des idées à travers la transmission des informations. Ce volume analyse les liens complexes unissant ouverture économique et croissance et se penche sur les débats interrogeant le degré pertinent de l'ouverture d'une économie. Jusqu'à quel point une croissance « ouverte » est-elle un bon levier de compétitivité ? Chaque économie, suivant son niveau de développement (son avance ou son retard), la nature de ses spécialisations et ses structures, entretient avec l'ouverture aux autres économies un rapport particulier. Les textes réunis explorent ces singularités dans une perspective chronologique évoluant du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours et abordent les problématiques orientées sur les flux de marchandises et d'argent entre les pays.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052014982
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : fr
Pages : 468
Book Description
Cet ouvrage regroupe les compagnons de route intellectuels de Jean-Charles Asselain, professeur émérite de l'Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, en un « livre d'hommages » à son rayonnement pédagogique et à son action de recherche. En effet, au fil de sa carrière, J.-C. Asselain n'a cessé de développer et de défendre la thèse d'une « économie ouverte », phénomène aux multiples facettes. L'ouverture économique est d'une part commerciale, à travers les échanges de marchandises et de services, d'autre part financière, à travers la mobilité internationale des capitaux; mais elle est aussi humaine via les mouvements migratoires et concerne la diffusion des idées à travers la transmission des informations. Ce volume analyse les liens complexes unissant ouverture économique et croissance et se penche sur les débats interrogeant le degré pertinent de l'ouverture d'une économie. Jusqu'à quel point une croissance « ouverte » est-elle un bon levier de compétitivité ? Chaque économie, suivant son niveau de développement (son avance ou son retard), la nature de ses spécialisations et ses structures, entretient avec l'ouverture aux autres économies un rapport particulier. Les textes réunis explorent ces singularités dans une perspective chronologique évoluant du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours et abordent les problématiques orientées sur les flux de marchandises et d'argent entre les pays.
The Journal of European Economic History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
French Banking and Entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong
Author: Hubert Bonin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429555628
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very few books have explored French initiatives and performance in this area, beyond diplomacy, geopolitics or cultural issues. In this book, Hubert Bonin confronts arguments about "the great divergence", "the first globalisation", and forms of "economic patriotism". He gauges the competitive edge of French companies and banks, their struggle with British domination (HBSC, Chartered, shipping, trade houses/hongs) and their resistance against competitors from other countries (Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, USA, or Russia). The book delves into studies of management abroad, therefore mixing broad geo-economic issues with precise business history and deep banking history. The connections between French interests in China and Hong Kong and the colony of Indochina are established too. A second part of the book is dedicated to the case study of Hong Kong, as the British colony acted as a hub for Asian and European interests at the heart of connections with mainland China and some neighbouring territories (Indochina, etc.). This is essential reading for academics interested in banking and business history, the history of entrepreneurship, as well as, those involved in the contemporary history of China and Hong Kong, in the assessment of world-wide geo-economic competition between European powers in Asia (Great-Britain, and France), and in the first stages of economic "modernity", along European models, in emerging modern China.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429555628
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very few books have explored French initiatives and performance in this area, beyond diplomacy, geopolitics or cultural issues. In this book, Hubert Bonin confronts arguments about "the great divergence", "the first globalisation", and forms of "economic patriotism". He gauges the competitive edge of French companies and banks, their struggle with British domination (HBSC, Chartered, shipping, trade houses/hongs) and their resistance against competitors from other countries (Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, USA, or Russia). The book delves into studies of management abroad, therefore mixing broad geo-economic issues with precise business history and deep banking history. The connections between French interests in China and Hong Kong and the colony of Indochina are established too. A second part of the book is dedicated to the case study of Hong Kong, as the British colony acted as a hub for Asian and European interests at the heart of connections with mainland China and some neighbouring territories (Indochina, etc.). This is essential reading for academics interested in banking and business history, the history of entrepreneurship, as well as, those involved in the contemporary history of China and Hong Kong, in the assessment of world-wide geo-economic competition between European powers in Asia (Great-Britain, and France), and in the first stages of economic "modernity", along European models, in emerging modern China.
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 2744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 2744
Book Description
First International Conference of Economic History / Première Conférence internationale d’histoire économique
Author:
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112316908
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
No detailed description available for "First International Conference of Economic History / Première Conférence internationale d'histoire économique".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112316908
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
No detailed description available for "First International Conference of Economic History / Première Conférence internationale d'histoire économique".