Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: a History of ""the Devil''s Metal""
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1. Verfasser: Ingulstad, Mats (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Routledge 2014
Schriftenreihe:Routledge international studies in business history
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Beschreibung:Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Photographs; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: ""The Path of Civilization is Paved with Tin Cans"": The Political Economy of the Global Tin Industry; 1 Not by Tin Alone: The Polymetallic Content of Primary Tin Production and Cornwall''s Role in the International Mining Industry; 2 Bankers, Entrepreneurs, and Bolivian Tin in the International Economy, 1900-1932; 3 Summer''s Food for Winter''s Tables: Tin Consumption in the Americas
4 Banging the Tin Drum: The United States and the Quest for Strategic Self-Sufficiency in Tin, 1840-19455 Tin and the German War Economy: Scrap Drives, Blockade Running, and War Looting; 6 Tin, Tin in the Congo: From Imperial Asset to Conflict Mineral; 7 The Trouble with Tin: Governments and Businesses in Decolonizing Malaya; 8 The Birth of the World''s Largest Tin Merchant: Philipp Brothers, Bolivian Tin and American Stockpiles; 9 Increasing Developing Countries'' Gains from Tin Mining: The Boom Years from the 1960s to 1985
10 ""The Strategic Wolf Hidden beneath the Clothing of the Economic Sheep"": Tin and the Strategizing of Raw MaterialsList of Contributors; Index
For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The trouble with tin was that economically viable deposits of the metal could only be found in a few regions of the world, predominantly in the southern hemisphere, while the main centers of consumption were in the industrialized north. The tin trade was therefore a highly politically charge
Beschreibung:298 pages
ISBN:9781317816119
1317816110

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