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

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

Capitalism in Chaos explores an often-overlooked consequence and paradox of the First World War—the prosperity of business elites and bankers in service of the war effort during the destruction of capital and wealth by belligerent armies. This study of business life amidst war and massive geopolitic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Rigó, Máté,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.) :; 34 b&w halftones, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Place-Names
  • Introduction
  • 1. Industrialists and Consolidation in Central Europe (1867–1914)
  • 2. Costly Nationalism: Industrialists on the Eve of 1914
  • 3. Millionaires of Mitteleuropa
  • 4. The Enemy’s Money: Economic Retaliation in the Great War
  • 5. Profiting from Victory: Property Transfers in the Shadow of the 1918 Armistices
  • 6. France’s East-Central European “Empire” after Versailles
  • 7. Imperial Currencies after the Fall of Empires: The Conversion of the German Paper Mark and the Austro-Hungarian Crown at the End of the First World War
  • 8. Return Home? Alsatian Industrialists in France and Germany after 1918
  • 9. A Marriage of Convenience? Austro-Hungarian Industrialists in Greater Romania
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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