The Business Of Empire

Author : Jason M. Colby
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080146272X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Empire written by Jason M. Colby and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central America and the greater Caribbean. The Business of Empire places corporate power and local context at the heart of U.S. imperial history. In the early twentieth century, U.S. influence in Central America came primarily in the form of private enterprise, above all United Fruit. Founded amid the U.S. leap into overseas empire, the company initially depended upon British West Indian laborers. When its black workforce resisted white American authority, the firm adopted a strategy of labor division by recruiting Hispanic migrants. This labor system drew the company into increased conflict with its host nations, as Central American nationalists denounced not only U.S. military interventions in the region but also American employment of black immigrants. By the 1930s, just as Washington renounced military intervention in Latin America, United Fruit pursued its own Good Neighbor Policy, which brought a reduction in its corporate colonial power and a ban on the hiring of black immigrants. The end of the company's system of labor division in turn pointed the way to the transformation of United Fruit as well as the broader U.S. empire.

Author : H. V. Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139447882
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Empire written by H. V. Bowen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. H. V. Bowen profiles the company's stockholders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India. He also explores the company's multifarious interactions with the domestic economy and society, and sheds important new light on its substantial contributions to the development of Britain's imperial state, public finances, military strength, trade and industry. This book will appeal to all those interested in imperial, economic and business history.

Author : Andrew Carnegie
Publisher : New York, Doubleday, Page
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empire of Business written by Andrew Carnegie and published by New York, Doubleday, Page. This book was released on 1902 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint: Originally published: New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902.

Author : Peter Burroughs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134729057
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Business of Empire written by Peter Burroughs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, latterly Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge and a foremost authority on the economics of the modern British Empire. The contributors include an impressive array of former students, colleagues, and friends, and their subjects range widely across the economic and administrative fields of British imperial history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reflecting many of Fieldhouse's own areas of scholarly interest, the essays address economics and business, theories of imperialism, strategies of administration, and decolonization.

Author : Rusty McClure
Publisher : Ternary Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1578603226
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crosley written by Rusty McClure and published by Ternary Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2008-06-28 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the vibrant Industrial Age and filigreed with family drama and epic ambition, Crosley chronicles one of the great untold tales of the twentieth century. Crosley is a once-in-two-lifetimes book, examining the conquests of Powel Crosley, Jr., one of the most original innovators of the twentieth century, and Lewis Crosley, his brother who engineered the successful culmination of all Powel's plans.

Author : Max Vanguard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781543026917
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trump Business written by Max Vanguard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a business biography of Donald Trump. In this book, we are going to explore how Trump's early years and basic education contributed to the creation of his empire. We are also going to explore some of the many business ventures Trump has embarked on throughout his history as a famous businessman, including some of his failures and some of his best successes. This book will help you discover how his personal life has contributed to his success, and how his commitment to and affection for business has led to his multi-billion-dollar business empire. The book will also discuss all of Donald Trumps marriages and how Donald values family life. Futher the book will look at the Presidential campaign and what American is in store for with a President Trump.

Author : Nicole D. Legnani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268108960
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Conquest written by Nicole D. Legnani and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind native dispossession in the Americas. But in The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World, Nicole D. Legnani demonstrates how the financing and partnerships behind early expeditions betray their own praxis of imperial power as a business, even as the laws of the Indies were being written. She interrogates how and why apologists of Spanish Christian empire, such as José de Acosta, found themselves justifying the Spanish conquest as little more than a joint venture between crown and church that relied on violent actors in pursuit of material profits but that nonetheless served to propagate Christianity in overseas territories. Focusing on cultural and economic factors at play, and examining not only the chroniclers of the era but also laws, contracts, theological treatises, histories, and chivalric fiction, Legnani traces the relationship between capital investment, monarchical power, and imperial scalability in the Conquest. In particular, she shows how the Christian virtue of caritas (love and charity of neighbor, and thus God) became confused with cupiditas (greed and lust), because love came to be understood as a form of wealth in the partnership between the crown and the church. In this partnership, the work of the conquistador became, ultimately, that of a traveling business agent for the Spanish empire whose excess from one venture capitalized the next. This business was thus the business of conquest, and featured entrepreneurial violence as its norm--not exception. The Business of Conquest offers an original examination of this period, including the perspectives of both the creators of the colonial world (monarchs, venture capitalists, conquerors, and officials), of religious figures (such as Las Casas), and finally of indigenous points of view to show how a venture capital model can be used to analyze the partnership between crown and church. It will appeal to students and scholars of the early modern period, Latin American colonial studies, capitalism, history, and indigenous studies.

Author : Andrew Carnegie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528059855
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empire of Business (Classic Reprint) written by Andrew Carnegie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Empire of Business T IS well that young men should begin at the I beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading business men of Pittsburg had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold Of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of a business education. But if by Chance the professional sweeper is absent any morn ing the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. The other day a fond fashionable mother in Michigan asked a young man Whether he had ever seen a young lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla. He said no, he never had, and the mother was gratified beyond measure, but then said he, after a pause, What I should like to see her do is sweep out a room. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Doug Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780670888559
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molson written by Doug Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicole Delia Legnani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268108991
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Conquest written by Nicole Delia Legnani and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: