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Discusses worldwide economic integration between 1850 and 1930, challenging the popular description of the period after 1918 as one of deglobalisation.
List of contents
Preface Harold James; Introduction: power, institutions, and global markets - actors, mechanisms, and foundations of worldwide economic integration, 1850�30 Christof Dejung and Niels P. Petersson; Part I. Legal Institutions and Private Actors: 1. Legal institutions and the world economy, 1900�; 2. Against globalisation: sovereignty, courts, and the failure to coordinate international bankruptcies (1870�40) Jé–鬽e Sgard; 3. Credit information, institutions, and international trade: the UK, US, and Germany, 1850�30 Rowena Olegario; Part II. Colonial Markets and Non-Western Actors: 4. The London Stock Exchange and the colonial market: a study of internationalisation and power Bernard Attard; 5. The London gold market, 1900� Bernd-Stefan Grewe; 6. The boundaries of Western power: the colonial cotton economy in India and the problem of quality Christof Dejung; 7. The colonised as global traders: Indian trading networks in the world economy, 1850�39 Claude Markovits; 8. The international patent system and the global flow of technologies: the case of Japan, 1880�30 Pierre-Yves Donz� Part III. World War I and the Consequences for Economic Globalisation: 9. Transnational cooperation in wartime: the international protection of intellectual property rights during the First World War Isabella Lé°„r; 10. The resilience of globalisation during the First World War: the case of Bunge and Born in Argentina Philip Dehne; 11. Global economic governance and the private sector: the League of Nations' experiment in the 1920s Michele d'Alessandro.
About the author
Christof Dejung is Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Germany.Niels P. Petersson is Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University.
Summary
The essays in this volume discuss worldwide economic integration between 1850 and 1930, challenging the popular description of the period after 1918 as one of deglobalisation. By showing that institutionalism altered its shape in circumstances that challenged international trade, and presenting case studies from various countries, this book offers a fresh perspective on economic globalisation.
