{"product_id":"globalization-of-merchant-banking-before-1850","title":"Globalization of Merchant Banking before 1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American war of 1812. Though the majority of merchant bankers remained cautious in their affairs, Huth \u0026amp; Co established an impressive global network of trade and lending, dealing with over 6,000 correspondents in more than seventy countries. Based on archival research, this comparative study provides a new chronology of early nineteenth-century commercial and financial expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuth \u0026amp; Co. were truly market-makers and key intermediaries of commodities and capital flows in the international economy. This is an important example of a firm shaping globalisation well before the transport and communication revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. But rather than a case study, this is a comparative study concerned with the commercial and financial activities of the leading merchant-bankers of the period\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of great interest to business and economic historians interested in the nature of the early decades of the first globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243790258520,"sku":"9781848936072","price":210.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/globalization-of-merchant-banking-before-1850","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}