The first history of the involvement of American business in direct foreign investment explores a number of pertinent questions: What was the genesis of U.S. business interests in overseas markets? What perspectives guided the financial and social policies of the pioneering companies? In what...

Chapter 1: The international connections of the Australian colonies -- Chapter 2: Foreign investment before World War One -- Chapter 3: Hidden from view. The multinational enterprise in colonial Australia -- Chapter 4: Early entrants: MNEs in Australia, c.1820-70 -- Chapter 5: The Spread of the...