The Foundations of Worldwide Economic Integration : Power, Institutions, and Global Markets, 1850–1930 (Paperback)

Preface Harold James; Introduction: power, institutions, and global markets - actors, mechanisms, and foundations of worldwide economic integration, 1850?1930 Christof Dejung and Niels P. Petersson; Part I. Legal Institutions and Private Actors: 1. Legal institutions and the world economy, 1900?30; 2. Against globalisation: sovereignty, courts, and the failure to coordinate international bankruptcies (1870?1940) Jerome Sgard; 3. Credit information, institutions, and international trade: the UK, US, and Germany, 1850?1930 Rowena Olegario; Part II. Colonial Markets and Non-Western Actors: 4. The London Stock Exchange and the colonial market: a study of internationalisation and power Bernard Attard; 5. The London gold market, 1900?31 Bernd-Stefan Grewe; 6. The boundaries of Western power: the colonial cotton economy in India and the problem of quality Christof Dejung; 7. The colonised as global traders: Indian trading networks in the world economy, 1850?1939 Claude Markovits; 8. The international patent system and the global flow of technologies: the case of Japan, 1880?1930 Pierre-Yves Donze; Part III. World War I and the Consequences for Economic Globalisation: 9. Transnational cooperation in wartime: the international protection of intellectual property rights during the First World War Isabella Lohr; 10. The resilience of globalisation during the First World War: the case of Bunge and Born in Argentina Philip Dehne; 11. Global economic governance and the private sector: the League of Nations' experiment in the 1920s Michele d'Alessandro.