Del 43 i serien Harvard Studies in Business History

History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Mira Wilkins, the foremost authority on foreign investment in the United States, continues her magisterial history in a work covering the critical years 1914–1945.Wilkins includes all long-term inward foreign investments, both portfolio (by individuals and institutions) and direct (by multinationals), across such enterprises as chemicals and pharmaceuticals, textiles, insurance, banks and mortgage providers, other service sector companies, and mining and oil industries. She traces the complex course of inward investments, presents the experiences of the investors, and examines the political and economic conditions, particularly the range of public policies, that affected foreign investments. She also offers valuable discussions on the intricate cross-investments of inward and outward involvements and the legal precedents that had long-term consequences on foreign investment.At the start of World War I, the United States was a debtor nation. By the end of World War II, it was a creditor nation with the strongest economy in the world. Integrating economic, business, technological, legal, and diplomatic history, this comprehensive study is essential to understanding the internationalization of the American economy, as well as broader global trends.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2004-06-30
Mått156 x 235 x 57 mm
Vikt1 452 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHarvard Studies in Business History
Antal sidor1 008
FörlagHarvard University Press
ISBN9780674013087
UtmärkelserNominated for National Book Awards 2004

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List of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. The First World War, 1914-1918 2. America's New Role, 1919-1923 3. Survival, Expansion, and New Arrivals, 1919-1923 4. Prosperity, 1924-1929 5. The Foreign Multinationals, 1924-1929 6. A Time of Anguish, October 1929-March 1933 7. A World at Risk, 1933-1939 8. War Abroad, 1939-1941 9. World War II, 1941-1945 10. American Hegemony Appendixes 1. Definitions 2. Notes on the Statistics 3. Detailed Sources for Tables 2.1, 8.3, and 10.1 4. Principal U.S. Federal Legislation Affecting Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 Notes Bibliography Index

This book is breathtaking in scope and highly original. Mira Wilkins provides the first comprehensive account of foreign investment into the United States in the interwar years. In a literature which remains extremely focused on the domestic economy, Wilkins shows the importance of the business and capital relations between the United States and the rest of the world and confronts important assumptions about the nature of American 'exceptionalism.' This work is a major event in historical scholarship, of significance far beyond the business history community, where it will become an immediate classic. It will be widely welcomed.