This text presents for the first time the history of international business, using both a case and contextual approach. Case studies from around the world are analyzed in both their internal and external contexts. Divided into five geographical sections--Europe, North America, Central America/South America/the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia/the Western Pacific--the text features case studies of particular businesses of various periods, as well as essays on international business and economic integration in the particular regions. Introductions to each section define main themes and relate the case studies to those themes; commentaries introduce each case study and summarize key issues.This pioneering text is suitable for upper-division courses in international business history. It can also serve as a supplementary text in courses in international economic history, international economic relations, economic development, and comparative management
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 ContextEuropeFamily Businesses Expanding Across Borders and Generations: The Medicis, Fuggers, and RothschildsDistinctive National Patterns of Multinational Emergence: The United Kingdom, France, Germany, and SwedenVignette: International Business and Economic Integration: EC92North AmericaSinger and International Harvester in Late Imperial RussiaUnited Fruit Company in Costa Rica and GuatemalaVignette: International Business and Economic Integration: The U.S.-Canada Free Trade ActCentral America/South America/Caribbean BasinMining at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 1850-1930s: The Triumph of the Cerro CorporationMining in Colombia: Energy Contracts and Exxon, 1951-1983Tourism in the Bahamas: Foreign Capital and the Creation of FreeportVignette: International Business and Economic Integration: The U.S.-Mexico Free Trade ActAfricaSouth Africa: A Complicated Situation for International BusinessNamibia: Multiple Victimizations, Nineteenth Century to PresentCapitalism v. Socialism in Independent Africa: An Exclusive Dichotomy?Vignette: International Business and Economic Integration in AfricaAsia/Western PacificState Capitalism and the Emergence of International Business in JapanIndia: The Green Revolution, Bhopal, and Multinational Enterprise LiabilityImplications of Economic Reform in China for International BusinessVignette: International Business and Economic Integration in Asia and the Western PacificSuggested ReadingsSourcesIndex