Empires of profit : commerce, conquest and corporate responsibility / Daniel Litvin
- Bib ID:
- 2331125
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- Book
- Author:
- Litvin, Daniel B
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- Description:
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- New York ; London : Texere, 2003
- xvii, 339 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1587991160
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: PART ONE EMPIRES I
- INTRODUCTION 3
- Chapter One The corruption of the Moguls: the English East India Company 11
- Chapter Two A warlike tribe: Cecil Rhodes and the British
- South Africa Company 43
- PART TWO EMPIRES II
- INTRODUCTION 73
- Chapter Three Violent acquisitions: the South Manchurian
- Railway Company 83
- Chapter Four Jungle culture: the United Fruit Company 113
- PART THREE BACKLASH
- INTRODUCTION 145
- Chapter Five Post-imperial managers: Belgian strongmen
- and Italian charmers 155
- Chapter Six Clash of the Titans: Aramco and Saudi Arabia 181
- PART FOUR RESURGENCE
- INTRODUCTION 217
- Chapter Seven The contortions of corporate responsibility:
- Nike and its third-world factories 227
- Chapter Eight Trappings of power: Royal Dutch/Shell and Nigeria 249
- Chapter Nine The cultural revolution: Rupert Murdoch in
- China and India 275
- Epilogue 297.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-327) and index.
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- Copyright:
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