Mercantile Roots

Brian O’Sullivan ()
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Brian O’Sullivan: King’s College London

Chapter Chapter 10 in From Crisis to Crisis, 2018, pp 285-328 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the mercantile activities of the merchant banks in the increasingly difficult economic environment of the interwar period. Some firms remained true to their mercantile roots, either by continuing as international traders or by becoming specialist operators within trading conglomerates. Such models were common in South America and the Far East. These variants on the merchant banking model are no less relevant than those that focused purely on financial activities, enabling some firms to continue their mercantile activities beyond the interwar period.

Keywords: Merchant traders; British overseas banks; Trading houses; Commodities; Nitrate; Guggenheim (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96698-4_10

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