Cart

Unlocking potential with the best learning and research solutions

Look Inside

I want this title to be available as an eBook

Global Electrification
Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007

CAD$63.95 (C)

Part of Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise

Authors:
William J. Hausman, College of William and Mary, Virginia
Peter Hertner, Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenburg, Germany
Mira Wilkins, Florida International University

Date Published: June 2011
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521299008

Rate & review

CAD$ 63.95 (C)
Paperback

Add to cart Add to wishlist

Other available formats:
Hardback

Looking for an examination copy?

This title is not currently available for examination. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an examination copy. To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching.

Description

Contents

Resources

Courses

About the Authors

This book examines how multinational enterprises and international finance influenced the course of electrification around the world. Multinational enterprises played a crucial role in the spread of electric light and power from the 1870s through the first three decades of the twentieth century. Their role did not persist, as over time they exited through “domestication” (buy-outs, confiscations, or other withdrawals), so that by 1978 multinational enterprises in this sector had all but disappeared, replaced by electrical utility providers with national business structures. Yet, in recent years, there has been a vigorous revival. This book, a unique cooperative effort by the three authors and a group of experts from many countries, offers a fresh analysis of the history of multinational enterprise, taking an integrative approach, not simply comparing national electrification experiences, but supplying a truly global account.
- Contributes to the popular field of global history
- People often take electricity for granted; this book shows how it spread and how key multinationals were to that process
- Adds to scholarship on multinational enterprise and international finance
Read more
Reviews & endorsements
"This extensively documented study will be of value not only to scholars interested in the electric industry, but to those studying multinational enterprises, technological diffusion, globalization, and modern history. Highly recommended." -Choice
"...an impressively researched history of international finance and multinational companies in the development of the electric utility industry." -Christopher Jones, Techonology and Culture
"...the first objective study of Hoechst." -Anthony Stranges, Techonology and Culture
"This is a very fine history of multinational enterprise and finance. Economic, business, and international historians interested in the last century will find much new information and rigorous analysis of electrification in it most correct, global setting."
EH.net, Michael Edelstein, Queens College
"...a very fine, well-written, and skillfully researched book." -Tom Nicholas, Journal of Economic History
"...an illuminating study based on a prodigious amount of research of truly global scope packaged in a highly accessible narrative. It serves as recommended reading for anyone interested in business history, technology history, political economy, energy systems, and global finance." -Paul Hirt, World History Connected
See more reviews
Customer reviews

Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review

Log in to review

Review was not posted due to profanity
×

, create a review

(If you're not , sign out)

Please enter the right captcha value

Please enter a star rating.

Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

How do you rate this item?

Reviews must contain at least 12 words about the product.

×

Product details
- Date Published: June 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521299008
- length: 512 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.74kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Concepts:
1. Invention and spread of electrical utilities with a measure of the extent of foreign ownership
2. Multinational enterprise and international finance
Part II. Changes:
3. Every city, 1880–1914
4. War, the first nationalization, restructuring, and renewal, 1914–29
5. Basic infrastructure, 1929–45
Part III. Conclusions:
6. Summary of the domestication pattern to 1978
7. Coming full circle, 1978–2007, and a global perspective.
Look Inside
Authors
William J. Hausman, College of William and Mary, Virginia
Peter Hertner, Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenburg, Germany
Mira Wilkins, Florida International University