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A History of the Global Wheat Trade: Actors and Dynamics (1840-1914) book cover

1st Edition

A History of the Global Wheat Trade Actors and Dynamics (1840-1914)

Edited By Marco Bertilorenzi, Carlo Fumian, Giovanni Gozzini Copyright 2025
356 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

356 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

356 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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During the second half of the 19th century, a new global market for wheat came to the fore. Ever since, scarce and perishable food has been transformed into a modern global commodity, millions of tons of which is sold, bought, and transported across the oceans, providing the “daily bread” for a fast-growing world population. This book explores the historical origin of the global wheat market,... Read more

Lists of tables and figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Actors, places, and exchanges of the global wheat market

Marco Bertilorenzi, Carlo Fumian, Giovanni Gozzini

 

1. Grain merchants and famines in late Renaissance. Giovanni Maria Mersi, Tommaso Barana and the provisioning of Padua and Vicenza (1572-1616).

Francesco Vianello

 

2. Grain Traders and the Wheat Trade in 16th and 17th century Genoa

Sofia Gullino

 

3. Agriculture and the market: the producers’ perspective (Italy, 18th cent.)

Giulio Ongaro

 

4. The Great Transition? Victualling Systems and Grain Markets in the Italian Peninsula between the 18th and 19th Centuries

Luca Andreoni

 

5. The new “American Wheat System”, Frank H. Peavey, and the “Great Western Game”

Carlo Fumian

 

6. Finance and production in the Chicago wheat market, 1859-1914.

Giovanni Gozzini

 

7. Competition among wheat exchanges. New York, Paris, London, and the global development of futures trading (1870s-1914)

Marco Bertilorenzi

 

8. Odessa and its wheat trade in the long 19th century, 1794-1905

Giovanni Cadioli

 

9. Danzig grain trade. Economic dynamics, organisational structures and cultural challenges (1816-1914)

Luciano Segreto

 

10. Genoa in the global wheat trade

Marco Doria

 

11. Black Sea grain trade, Greek entrepreneurial networks and integration to the global economy, 19th century

Gelina Harlaftis and Alexandra Papadopoulou

 

12. Australia in the global wheat trade

Martin Shanahan

 

13. The Rise and Fall of Indian Wheat in International Trade

Tirthankar Roy

 

14. Bunge & Born. The rise of a global wheat trader, 1880-1914.

Mariela Ceva

 

15. From local to global pioneers, the Louis-Dreyfus family

Alain Chatriot

 

16. Italy. A fringe market in a global context

Matteo Aiani and Renato Covino

 

Index

 

Biography

Marco Bertilorenzi is Associate Professor in economic and business history at University of Padova, Italy. He was part of the Rita Levi-Montalcini excellence program of the Italian Ministry of Research and University. With Routledge, he has already published a research monograph titled The International Aluminium Cartel.

Carlo Fumian is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Padova, Italy. He recently published Pane quotidiano. L'invisibile mercato mondiale del grano tra XIX e XX secolo. He is the PI of the "Project of Excellence" (Cariparo Foundation, Italy), from which this book resulted.

Giovanni Gozzini is Full Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Siena, Department of Social, Political, and Cognitive Sciences. His last published volume is Ecologia del denaro. Finanza e società nel mondo contemporaneo (Laterza 2024).

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