Commerce and Culture -

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Résumé :
This volume presents a collection of interrelated essays by international scholars working on the relationship between commerce and culture from c. 1750 to the early-twentieth century. Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth century, and these essays underline the centrality of this across a broad international setting. As such the volume provides an important addition to the available literature in this field and will attract a wide readership amongst business, cultural, maritime, economic, social and urban historians, as well as historical anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists whose research embraces a longer-term perspective.

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Sommaire:
General Editor's Preface, Robert Lee; Chapter 1 Commerce and Culture: A Critical Assessment of the Role of Cultural Factors in Commerce and Trade from c.1750 to the Early Twentieth Century, Robert Lee; Chapter 2 From Wolverhampton to Calcutta: The Low Origins of Merchant Enterprise, Andrew Popp; Chapter 3 The Australian Company: Operations and Finances, Michael Nix; Chapter 4 Bridges to the East: European Merchants and Business Practices in India and China, Christof Dejung; Chapter 5 'To save the commercial community of New York': Panicked Business Elites in 1837, Jessica Lepler; Chapter 6 The Entrepreneurial Activity of Dimitrios and Stephanos Manos in Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Ikaros Madouvalos; Chapter 7 The Rise and Fall of Friedrich Wilhelm Keutgen, Bremens Consul in New York, 1859-61, Lars Maischak; Chapter 8 The Role of the Business Elite in the Social, Economic and Cultural Life of the Russian Provincial City, Elena Apkarimova; Chapter 9 The Commercial Culture of Spiritual Kinship amongst German Immigrant Merchants in London, c.1750-1830, Margrit Schulte Beerb?hl; Chapter 10 To Have and to Hold? Marital Connections and Family Relationships in Salem, Massachusetts, 1755-1810, Lesley Doig; Chapter 11 'A most terrific passage': Putting Faith into Atlantic Steam Navigation, Crosbie Smith;