Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939)

Luciano Segreto is a Full Professor of Economic History at the University of Florence, He teaches also at the Bocconi University in Milan, the Gdansk University of Technology, and the Warsaw branch of the College of Europe. He has been teaching in several other European and Chinese universities.His research fields are the history of big family capitalism, the world economy after the end of the Cold War, the international trade of commodities in the 19th and 20th centuries, banking history, and corporate governance in historical perspective.Among his most recent publications Mutual Attraction: Siemens Activities. in. Italy. 1855–1968, in Multinational Enterprise, Political Risk and Organisational Change: From Total War to Cold War, edited by Neil Forbes, Takafumi Kurosawa and Ben Wubs, Routledge, New York 2019; Esportare la corporate governance nel mondo. Milan, Egea 2022; International timber trade, merchants, and the business organization of the sector: The role of Danzig and the southern ports of the Baltic Sea (1823–1913), in “Business History”, Published online: 18 Jul 2023.

• Chapter 1. A Sea and the Commodities for the Industrialization Process.- Chapter 2. The Business Organization and the Timber Value Chain Until 1914.- Chapter 3. The European Timber Market Between the Seventeenth Century and the First World War.- Chapter 4. The International Impact of the First World War on the Baltic Timber Economy.- Chapter 5. The Timber Market in the 1920s Amid Difficult Postwar Recovery and New States.- Chapter 6. Regulating the Production, Regulating the Market.