World market transformation : inside the German fur capital Leipzig 1870-1939

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures and Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part I Local Business Systems and Global Trade -- 1 The Leipzig Fur Capital as a Local Business System -- 2 The Making of the Fur Capital Leipzig (1850-1914) -- 3 Linking the Capital to the Outside World -- Part II Finding World Market Alternatives (1903-1939) -- 4 The Karakul Farming Experiment in South West Africa (1903-1933) -- 5 Resource Substitution and World Market Isolation: The First World War as a Testing Field for Interfirm Cooperation (1914-1920) -- 6 Fur Farming in the Interwar Period: A Source for World Market Retreat? -- Part III World Market Restructuring and the Fur Capital (1920-1939) -- 7 Business as Usual? Adaptation to World Market Restructuring (1919-1925) -- 8 Market Engineering as a Collective Enterprise (1921-1930) -- 9 Promoting the Capital: The Leipzig International Fur Exhibition and Congress in 1930 -- Part IV Epilogue -- 10 Economic Depression, Soviet Plan Economy, and Anti-Semitism: The Limits of Collective Action (1931-1939) -- 11 Conclusion -- Index.