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treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society … found everywhere in the records but are almost invisible in the literature. The China Firm addresses this problem through a … study of the men and women involved in the most prominent and important American trading firm in treaty-port China …
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Preindustrial businesses: the time of the merchant -- The many paths to industrialization -- British and German businesses during industrialization -- Big and small businesses in industrializing America -- Japanese and Chinese businesses during industrialization -- American, British, and German...
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The American and British systems of industrial relations on the eve of World War I -- The impact of World War I: experimenting with corporatism -- The twenties: the retreat from wartime corporatist experiments and the quest for new forms of voluntary organization -- The Great Depression and the...
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The rise of global finance in the latter half of the twentieth century has long been understood as one chapter in a larger story about the postwar growth of the United States. This book challenges this popular narrative. Revealing the Anglo-American origins of financial globalization, Jeremy...
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