The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914

The first history of the involvement of American business in direct foreign investment explores a number of pertinent questions: What was the genesis of U.S. business interests in overseas markets? What perspectives guided the financial and social policies of the pioneering companies? In what way di...

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