The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 / Mira Wilkins.
Wilkins, Mira, author.
2009
HG4910 ǂb W428 2004eb
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Title The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 / Mira Wilkins.
Author Wilkins, Mira, author.
ISBN 9780674045187
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674045187
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2004
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (1008 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674045187 doi
Call Number HG4910 ǂb W428 2004eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 332.67/3/097309041
Summary 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 multinationals), across such enterprises as chemicals and pharmaceuticals, textiles, insurance, banks and mortgage providers, other service sector companies, and mining and oil industries. She traces the complex course of inward investments, presents the experiences of the investors, and examines the political and economic conditions, particularly the range of public policies, that affected foreign investments. She also offers valuable discussions on the intricate cross-investments of inward and outward involvements and the legal precedents that had long-term consequences on foreign investment. At the start of World War I, the United States was a debtor nation. By the end of World War II, it was a creditor nation with the strongest economy in the world. Integrating economic, business, technological, legal, and diplomatic history, this comprehensive study is essential to understanding the internationalization of the American economy, as well as broader global trends.
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Series Harvard Studies in Business History ; 43
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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

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