Cigarettes, Inc. (eBook)

An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism

Nan Enstad (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
336 Seiten
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-53345-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity-for good or ill-to the rest of the world. With Cigarettes, Inc., Nan Enstad upends this story, revealing the myriad cross-cultural encounters that produced corporate life before World War II.In this startling account of innovation and expansion, Enstad uncovers a corporate network rooted in Jim Crow segregation that stretched between the United States and China and beyond. Cigarettes, Inc. teems with a global cast from Egyptian, American, and Chinese entrepreneurs to a multiracial set of farmers, merchants, factory workers, marketers, and even baseball players, jazz musicians, and sex workers. Through their stories, Cigarettes, Inc. accounts for the cigarette s spectacular rise in popularity and in the process offers nothing less than a sweeping reinterpretation of corporate power itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.12.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-10: 0-226-53345-X / 022653345X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53345-2 / 9780226533452