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Author:   Marco Bertilorenzi ,  Carlo Fumian ,  Giovanni Gozzini
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.820kg
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9781032642291

ISBN 10:   1032642297
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   29 April 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction. Actors, places, and exchanges of the global wheat market 1. Grain merchants and famines in late Renaissance. Giovanni Maria Mersi, Tommaso Barana and the provisioning of Padua and Vicenza (1572-1616). 2. Grain Traders and the Wheat Trade in 16th and 17th century Genoa 3. Agriculture and the market: the producers’ perspective (Italy, 18th cent.) 4. The Great Transition? Victualling Systems and Grain Markets in the Italian Peninsula between the 18th and 19th Centuries 5. The new “American Wheat System”, Frank H. Peavey, and the “Great Western Game” 6. Finance and production in the Chicago wheat market, 1859-1914. 7. Competition among wheat exchanges. New York, Paris, London, and the global development of futures trading (1870s-1914) 8. Odessa and its wheat trade in the long 19th century, 1794-1905 9. Danzig grain trade. Economic dynamics, organisational structures and cultural challenges (1816-1914) 10. Genoa in the global wheat trade 11. Black Sea grain trade, Greek entrepreneurial networks and integration to the global economy, 19th century 12. Australia in the global wheat trade 13. The Rise and Fall of Indian Wheat in International Trade 14. Bunge & Born. The rise of a global wheat trader, 1880-1914. 15. From local to global pioneers, the Louis-Dreyfus family 16. Italy. A fringe market in a global context Index

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Marco Bertilorenzi is Associate Professor in economic and business history at University of Padova, Italy. He was part of the Rita Levi-Montalcini excellence program of the Italian Ministry of Research and University. With Routledge, he has already published a research monograph titled The International Aluminium Cartel. Carlo Fumian is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Padova, Italy. He recently published Pane quotidiano. L'invisibile mercato mondiale del grano tra XIX e XX secolo. He is the PI of the ""Project of Excellence"" (Cariparo Foundation, Italy), from which this book resulted. Giovanni Gozzini is Full Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Siena, Department of Social, Political, and Cognitive Sciences. His last published volume is Ecologia del denaro. Finanza e società nel mondo contemporaneo (Laterza 2024).

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