Manuel Llorca-Jaña

The Globalization of Merchant Banking before 1850

The case of Huth & Co.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

London 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 & 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781848936072
• ISBN-10: 1848936079
• Artikelnr.: 43550920

Autorenporträt

Manuel Llorca-Jaña is Associate Professor of Economic and Business History at Universidad de Santiago, Chile.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Early life and activities of Frederick Huth, founder of the company,
c.1777-1822 2. Expansion of the firm during the 1820s-1830s and the South
American branches 3. The Spanish and German connections during the
1820s-1840s 4. The Liverpool branch, agents in Britain and the US
connection 5. A global enterprise of trade and lending 6. Risk management
credit strategies 7. Conclusions

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1. Early life and activities of Frederick Huth, founder of the company, c.1777-1822 2. Expansion of the firm during the 1820s-1830s and the South American branches 3. The Spanish and German connections during the 1820s-1840s 4. The Liverpool branch, agents in Britain and the US connection 5. A global enterprise of trade and lending 6. Risk management credit strategies 7. Conclusions

Rezensionen

"This is a book written with great clarity and elegance...Without any doubt, this very interesting book is a compulsory reading for anyone interested in the world trade expansion of the nineteenth century." - Xabier Lamikiz, Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research