Capitalism in chaos : how the business elites of Europe prospered in the era of the Great War / Máté Rigó.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rigó, Máté, 1985- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrialists--Europe--History--19th century.

Industrialists.

Industrialists--Europe--History--20th century.

World War, 1914-1918--Europe--Influence.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Capitalism in Chaos explores an often-overlooked consequence and paradox of the First World War - the prosperity of business elites and bankers in service of the war effort during the destruction of capital and wealth by belligerent armies. This study of business life amid war and massive geopolitical changes follows industrialists and policymakers in Central Europe as the region became crucially important for German and subsequently French plans of economic and geopolitical expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Based on extensive research in sixteen archives, five languages, and four states, Mate Rigo demonstrates that wartime destruction and the birth of 'war millionaires' were two sides of the same coin.

Contents:

Industrialists and consolidation in Central Europe (1867-1914)

Costly nationalism: industrialists on the eve of 1914

Millionaires of Mitteleuropa

The enemy's money: economic retaliation in the First World War

Profiting from victory: property transfers in the shadow of the 1918 armistices

France's East-Central European "empire" after Versailles

Imperial currencies after the fall of empires

Return home? Alsatian industrialists in France and Germany after 1918

A marriage of convenience? Austro-Hungarian industrialists in greater Romania.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 22, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Rigó, Máté Capitalism in Chaos

ISBN:

9781501764660

OCLC:

1336405268