Maritime enterprise and empire : Sir William Mackinnon and his business network, 1823-93 /
This book explores the nineteenth century roots of globalisation through the activities of the enterprise network created by the Scottish merchant, William Mackinnon. It follows the rise of the family-led business group from its modest origins in Scotland to its transformation into the world's...
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
Boydell Press
2003.
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| Länkar: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt7zsv15 |
Innehållsförteckning:
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; Part 1: Enterprising Scots; 1 East India merchants: Clyde to Calcutta, 1823-61; 2 The British India Steam Navigation Company, 1856-70; 3 Extending the system: Australia, Indonesia and Arabian waters, 1862-70; 4 Business networking, 1860-70; Part 2: Suez and after; 5 The Suez Canal, India and the Netherlands Indies, 1869-82; 6 The Persian Gulf, the Zanzibar mail contracts, and the London-Gulf line, 1869-82; 7 Eastern Africa, 1872-82; 8 'Aristocratic capitalism', railways and the Central African project, 1876-82
- 9 Family, group and network, 1870-8210 The failure of the City of Glasgow Bank, 1878-82; Part 3 Shipping power and imperial rivalries; 11 The Australian opening, 1880-93; 12 India: competition, collaboration and consolidation, 1882-93; 13. Indonesia: nationalism in Dutch colonial policy, 1882-90; 14 Imperial politics: Egypt and the scramble for Africa, 1882-6; 15 Interludes: a Scottish election, an African expedition and a Persian railway, 1885-7; 16 A false dawn: East Africa and the western Indian Ocean, 1887-90; 17 The fall of the Imperial British East Africa Company, 1890-3; CONCLUSION
- 18 Maritime enterprise and empireAppendix: family trees; Sources; INDEX