The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945 / / Mira Wilkins.

Mira Wilkins, the foremost authority on foreign investment in the United States, continues her magisterial history in a work covering the critical years 1914-1945. Wilkins includes all long-term inward foreign investments, both portfolio (by individuals and institutions) and direct (by multinational...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2004
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Harvard Studies in Business History ; 43
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1008 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. The First World War, 1914–1918
  • 2. America’s New Role, 1919–1923
  • 3. Survival, Expansion, and New Arrivals, 1919–1923
  • 4. Prosperity, 1924–1929
  • 5. The Foreign Multinationals, 1924–1929
  • 6. A Time of Anguish, October 1929–March 1933
  • 7. A World at Risk, 1933–1939
  • 8. War Abroad, 1939–1941
  • 9. World War II, 1941–1945
  • 10. American Hegemony
  • Appendixes
  • Appendix 1: Definitions
  • Appendix 2: Notes on the Statistics
  • Appendix 3: Detailed Sources for Tables 2.1, 8.3, and 10.1
  • Appendix 4: Principal U.S. Federal Legislation Affecting Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index