03148oam 2200469I 450 991079666140332120230808202856.01-351-54393-81-351-54394-61-315-08638-710.4324/9781315086385 (CKB)4100000000727856(MiAaPQ)EBC4907931(OCoLC)1001928101(EXLCZ)99410000000072785620180706d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe globalization of merchant banking before 1850 the case of Huth and Company /Manuel Llorca-JañaFirst Edition.London ;New York :Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,2016.1 online resource (185 pages) illustrations1-84893-607-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Early life and activities of Frederick Huth, founder of the company, c.1777-1822 -- chapter 2 Expansion of the firm during the 1820s–1830s and the South American branches -- chapter 3 Huth & Co.'s Spanish and German connections during the 1820s–1840s -- chapter 4 The Liverpool branch, agents in Britain and the US connection -- chapter 5 A global enterprise of trade and lending -- chapter 6 Risk-management credit strategies -- chapter 7 Conclusions."London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American war of 1812. Though the majority of merchant bankers remained cautious in their affairs, Huth & Co established an impressive global network of trade and lending, dealing with over 6,000 correspondents in more than seventy countries. Based on archival research, this comparative study provides a new chronology of early nineteenth-century commercial and financial expansion.Huth & Co. were truly market-makers and key intermediaries of commodities and capital flows in the international economy. This is an important example of a firm shaping globalisation well before the transport and communication revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. But rather than a case study, this is a comparative study concerned with the commercial and financial activities of the leading merchant-bankers of the periodThis book will be of great interest to business and economic historians interested in the nature of the early decades of the first globalization."--Provided by publisher.Merchant banksGreat BritainHistoryBanks and bankingGreat BritainHistoryGreat BritainCommerceHistoryMerchant banksHistory.Banks and bankingHistory.332.1/540941Llorca-Jaña Manuel1975-,1499314FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910796661403321The globalization of merchant banking before 18503725239UNINA