A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise

Introduction -- Strategic need and economic discrimination -- German grand strategy, 1879-1914 -- French grand strategy, 1887-1914 -- British grand strategy, 1919-39 -- U.S. grand strategy, 1945-67 -- Conclusion

"This collection takes a multi-perspective approach in the study of empire and commodities beyond temporal and spatial boundaries. From early modern Venetian trade to tea in the Eurasian world, the role of gold in Portuguese imperial ambitions and British sailors as traders, Across Colonial...