Creating Global Capitalism: Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy

This book provides a unique insight into the world of commodity trading companies, often depicted as the hidden companies of the global economy and showcases how they were instrumental in bringing about the economic integration of new commodities and far-flung regions into the first global economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The late nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented phase of global economic integration. As organisers of global trade, trading companies spe...