Commodity Trading, Globalization And The Colonial World: Spinning The Web Of The Global Market (Routledge International Studies In Business History)
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Description
This book is a micro-historical study of the modern trade in commodities based on the example of the Swiss trading company Volkart Brothers. The Volkart company was founded in 1851 by the brothers Salomon and Johann Georg Volkart, with offices in Winterthur, a small city north of Zurich, and in Bombay. By the end of the nineteenth century, the firm had risen to become one of the largest cotton exporters in India and during the twentieth century it joined the ranks of the world's leading cotton a
