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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Hudson, Peter James
Titre(s) : Bankers and empire [Texte électronique] : how Wall Street colonized the Caribbean / Peter James Hudson
Publication : Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 281-343 and index
From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall
Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international
expansion in the Caribbean. The precursors to institutions like Citibank and JPMorgan
Chase, as well as a host of long-gone and lesser-known financial entities, sought
to push out their European rivals so that they could control banking, trade, and finance
in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled
with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism but they set the model
for bad behavior by banks, visible still today. In Bankers and Empire, Peter James
Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the
institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West
Indies. Whether in Wall Street minstrel shows or in dubious practices across the Caribbean,
the behavior of the banks was deeply conditioned by bankers racial views and prejudices.
Drawing deeply on a broad range of sources, Hudson reveals that the banks experimental
practices and projects in the Caribbean often led to embarrassing failure, and eventually
literal erasure from the archives. Bankers and Empire is a groundbreaking book, one
which will force readers to think anew about the relationship between capitalism and
race
Introduction : Dark finance ; Colonial methods ; Rogue bankers ; Financial occupations
; Foreign regulation ; American expansion ; Imperial government ; Odious debt ; Racial
capitalism.
Sujet(s) : Banques -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Capitalisme -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Racisme -- Aspect économique -- 20e siècle
Impérialisme -- Aspect économique -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226459110. - ISBN 022645911X. - ISBN 9780226459257 (erroné)
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