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Capitalism in Chaos : How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War /

"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 F...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rigó, Máte, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.