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Capitalism in Chaos : How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War
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Title
Capitalism in Chaos : How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War / Máte Rigó.
ISBN
9781501764677
9781501764660
9781501764653
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
"This book is about the survival of industrial families in Western and East-Central Europe despite the First World War and collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and German empires. More specifically, the book draws on case studies of industrialists in Alsace-Lorraine and Transylvania that speak to French, German, Austro-Hungarian and Romanian history more generally between 1867 and 1928"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
Industrialists and consolidation in Central Europe (1867-1914)
Costly nationalism: industrialists on the eve of 1914
Millionaires of Mitteleuropa
The enemy's money: economic retaliation in the First World War
Profiting from victory: property transfers in the shadow of the 1918 armistices
France's East-Central European "empire" after Versailles
Imperial currencies after the fall of empires
Return home? Alsatian industrialists in France and Germany after 1918
A marriage of convenience? Austro-Hungarian industrialists in greater Romania.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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