International Business History

DENNIS M.P. MCCARTHY is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University in Ames. His articles have appeared in publications such as Humanities Magazine, The Journal of Economic History, and Business and Economic History. He is the author of Colonial Bureaucracy and Creating Underdevelopment (1982).

• Introduction: International Business and Context Europe Family Businesses Expanding Across Borders and Generations: The Medicis, Fuggers, and Rothschilds Distinctive National Patterns of Multinational Emergence: The United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Sweden Vignette: International Business and Economic Integration: EC92 North America Singer and International Harvester in Late Imperial Russia United Fruit Company in Costa Rica and Guatemala Vignette: International Business and Economic Integration: The U.S.-Canada Free Trade Act Central America/South America/Caribbean Basin Mining at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 1850-1930s: The Triumph of the Cerro Corporation Mining in Colombia: Energy Contracts and Exxon, 1951-1983 Tourism in the Bahamas: Foreign Capital and the Creation of Freeport Vignette: International Business and Economic Integration: The U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Act Africa South Africa: A Complicated Situation for International Business Namibia: Multiple Victimizations, Nineteenth Century to Present Capitalism v. Socialism in Independent Africa: An Exclusive Dichotomy? Vignette: International Business and Economic Integration in Africa Asia/Western Pacific State Capitalism and the Emergence of International Business in Japan India: The Green Revolution, Bhopal, and Multinational Enterprise Liability Implications of Economic Reform in China for International Business Vignette: International Business and Economic Integration in Asia and the Western Pacific Suggested Readings Sources Index