Special Issue Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy, now in print

Guess editors: Marten Boon, Espen Storli

Issue 65 – 5, 202

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Aldous, Michael. “From Traders to Planters: The Evolving Role and Importance of Trading Companies in the 19th Century Anglo-Indian Indigo Trade.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 803–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1623787.

Boon, Marten, and Espen Storli. “Creating Global Capitalism: An Introduction to Commodity Trading Companies and the First Global Economy.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 787–802. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2172163.

Declercq, Robrecht. “Natural Born Merchants. The Hudson Bay Company, Science and Canada’s Final Fur Frontiers (1925–1931).” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 920–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1625331.

DuBois, Thomas David. “Branding and Retail Strategy in the Condensed Milk Trade: Borden and Nestlé in East Asia, 1870–1929.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 902–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1688302.

Linneweh, Bastian. “Global Trading Companies in the Commodity Chain of Rubber between 1890 and the 1920s.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 863–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1693544.

Mizuno, Hiromi, and Ines Prodöhl. “Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian Soybean Trade: Geopolitics and Economic Strategies in China’s Northeast, ca. 1870s–1920s.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 880–901. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1687688.

Papadopoulou, Alexandra. “Foreign Merchant Businesses and the Integration of the Black and Azov Seas of the Russian Empire into the First Global Economy.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 821–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1676232.

Stambach, Amy. “Sourcing and Shipping Museum Objects from East Africa to the Smithsonian, 1887–1891.” Business History 65, no. 5 (July 4, 2023): 848–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1687687.