1st Edition
Creating Global Capitalism Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy
Introduction: Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy
Marten Boon and Espen Storli
1. From traders to planters: The evolving role and importance of trading companies in the 19th century Anglo-Indian Indigo trade
Michael Aldous
2. Foreign merchant businesses and the integration of the Black and Azov Seas of the Russian Empire into the First global economy
Alexandra Papadopoulou
3. Sourcing and shipping museum objects from East Africa to the Smithsonian, 1887–1891
Amy Stambach
4. Global trading companies in the commodity chain of rubber between 1890 and the 1920s
Bastian Linneweh
5. Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian soybean trade: Geopolitics and economic strategies in China’s Northeast, ca. 1870s–1920s
Hiromi Mizuno and Ines Prodöhl
6. Branding and retail strategy in the condensed milk trade: Borden and Nestlé in East Asia, 1870–1929
Thomas David DuBois
7. Natural born merchants. The Hudson Bay Company, science and Canada’s final fur frontiers (1925–1931)
Robrecht Declercq
Biography
Espen Storli is Professor of History at the Department of History and Modern Society at NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research interests include the history of natural resource extraction, commodity trading, and cartels.
Marten Boon is Lecturer in History of International Relations at Utrecht University. He holds a PhD in economic and business history from Erasmus University. His research interest focuses on the business and transnational history of energy, with a particular focus on the oil and gas industry in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
