Robrecht Declercq is Postdoctoral Researcher connected to the research group Communities, Connections, and Comparisons (CCC) and the History Department of the Ghent University, Belgium.

• Part 1: Local Business Systems and Global Trade1. The Leipzig Fur Capital as a Local Business System 2. The Making of the Fur Capital Leipzig (1850-1914) 3. Linking the Capital to the Outside World Part 2: Finding World Market Alternatives 1903-19394. The Karakul Farming Experiment in South West Africa (1903-1933) 5. Resource Substitution and World Market Isolation: The First World War as a Testing Field for Interfirm Cooperation (1914-1920)6. Fur Farming in the Interwar Period: A Source for World Market Retreat? Part 3: World Market Restructuring and the Fur Capital (1920-1939)7. Business as Usual? Adaptation to World Market Restructuring, 1919-1925 8. Market Engineering as a Collective Enterprise (1921-1930)9. Promoting the Capital. The Leipzig International Fur Exhibition and Congress in 1930 Part 4: Epilogue10. Economic Depression, Soviet Plan Economy and Antisemitism: the Limits of Collective Action (1931-1939)11. Conclusion

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Robrecht Declercq is Postdoctoral Researcher connected to the research group Communities, Connections, and Comparisons (CCC) and the History Department of the Ghent University, Belgium.

• Part 1: Local Business Systems and Global Trade1. The Leipzig Fur Capital as a Local Business System 2. The Making of the Fur Capital Leipzig (1850-1914) 3. Linking the Capital to the Outside World Part 2: Finding World Market Alternatives 1903-19394. The Karakul Farming Experiment in South West Africa (1903-1933) 5. Resource Substitution and World Market Isolation: The First World War as a Testing Field for Interfirm Cooperation (1914-1920)6. Fur Farming in the Interwar Period: A Source for World Market Retreat? Part 3: World Market Restructuring and the Fur Capital (1920-1939)7. Business as Usual? Adaptation to World Market Restructuring, 1919-1925 8. Market Engineering as a Collective Enterprise (1921-1930)9. Promoting the Capital. The Leipzig International Fur Exhibition and Congress in 1930 Part 4: Epilogue10. Economic Depression, Soviet Plan Economy and Antisemitism: the Limits of Collective Action (1931-1939)11. Conclusion

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Robrecht Declercq is Postdoctoral Researcher connected to the research group Communities, Connections, and Comparisons (CCC) and the History Department of the Ghent University, Belgium.

• Part 1: Local Business Systems and Global Trade1. The Leipzig Fur Capital as a Local Business System 2. The Making of the Fur Capital Leipzig (1850-1914) 3. Linking the Capital to the Outside World Part 2: Finding World Market Alternatives 1903-19394. The Karakul Farming Experiment in South West Africa (1903-1933) 5. Resource Substitution and World Market Isolation: The First World War as a Testing Field for Interfirm Cooperation (1914-1920)6. Fur Farming in the Interwar Period: A Source for World Market Retreat? Part 3: World Market Restructuring and the Fur Capital (1920-1939)7. Business as Usual? Adaptation to World Market Restructuring, 1919-1925 8. Market Engineering as a Collective Enterprise (1921-1930)9. Promoting the Capital. The Leipzig International Fur Exhibition and Congress in 1930 Part 4: Epilogue10. Economic Depression, Soviet Plan Economy and Antisemitism: the Limits of Collective Action (1931-1939)11. Conclusion

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