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"The Political Economy of International Commodity Cartels examines how international commodity cartels in the 1930s were impacted not only by commercial rivalry, but also by international trade political and diplomatic concerns. This work presents the rise and decline of the European Timber Exporters' Convention (ETEC) and analyses how firms navigated through the cartel game under increasing international competition, pressures from the national governments, and the interventionist endeavours of the League of Nations. Cartels are often associated in the standard economic interpretation as business collusion. However, in using vast archive sources and historical methodology, the chapters in this book shed light onto how international relations shaped cartels. The rise of British protectionism, the emergence of the Soviet Union as an industrial power, and the economic rapprochement of the League of Nations in the early 1930s created a wave of trade political and diplomatic challenges in the timber trading countries and affected cartelisation. Timber firms in the biggest producer countries - Finland and Sweden - were uninterested in international cartel collaboration, but under pressure joined the ETEC nevertheless. This book makes a strong contribution to the fields of business history and cartel studies. It is an essential read for economic historians interested in how political pressure shape international cartels, and how cartels became avenues of diplomacy. Elina Kuorelahti received her PhD in 2018 and is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher on international commodity cartels and peace in the interwar period at the University of Helsinki, Finland"--

Lumber trade --- Lumber industry --- Timber industry --- Forest products industry --- Lumbering --- History --- Cartels --- Producers' associations

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Forest products. --- Non-timber forest products. --- Forest resources, Non-timber --- Non-timber forest resources --- Non-wood forest products --- Nontimber forest products --- Nontimber forest resources --- Forest products --- Forest production --- Botany, Economic --- Commercial products --- Raw materials --- Productes forestals no fustaners --- PFNF --- Productes forestals no fusters --- Productes forestals --- Gomes i resines --- Suro

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While taking a critical look at the labor and social issues related to timber, the story of labor, immigration, and development around the San Francisco Bay region is told through the lens of an archaeological case study of a major player of the timber industry between 1885 and 1920. Timber, Sail, and Rail recounts the mill operations and broadly examines its intersections with other industries, such as shipping, brick manufacture, rail companies, lime production, and other lesser enterprises. Three seasons of archaeological fieldwork, as well as ethnography and regional archival work, are examined to emphasize technological and labor components at the historic Loma Prieta mill.

Lumber trade. --- 1885 to 1920. --- archaeological case study. --- archaeological fieldwork. --- brick manufacturing. --- development. --- ethnography. --- immigration. --- industry intersections. --- labor issues. --- labor. --- lesser enterprises. --- lime production. --- loma prieta mill. --- mill operations. --- rail companies. --- regional archival work. --- san francisco bay. --- shipping. --- social issues. --- story of labor. --- technology. --- timber industry. --- timber.

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The book describes the European Russian forests located in the Russian Plain and surrounding areas covering Eastern Karelia, the Kola Peninsula, the Northern, Central and Southern Russian provinces together with the Western Slope of the Ural Mountains. These forests comprise half of the total forested area in Europe and differ from the latter in their naturalness and the absence of intensive forest management in most of the area. The book describes the forests of the boreal, hemiboreal and nemoral forest regions; floodplain forests are also characterized according to their climatic regions. The book presents a classification and description of forest vegetation, soil characteristic and assessments of plant diversity and successional status of forest plant communities. Structure and composition of vegetation in early- and late-successional forests are analyzed with emphasis on forests in State Nature reserves. Features of the historical land-use, such as slash-and-burn, forest cutting, grazing, influence of fires on forest ecosystems, etc. are discussed for each forest region. The book is based on long-term investigations of the vegetation and soil, identifying and analysing forest tracts least disturbed by man, and on studying forest history at local and regional scales. Successional series of plant communities formed after typical anthropogenic impacts have been identified and a hypothesis on the potential forest landscapes and the main causes of their transformations is presented. The book contains an analysis of the general dynamics of the forest cover in European Russia during the last two decades based on satellite image processing. The history of forest landscapes in European Russia is briefly reviewed and it is shown that the main stages of transformation of the European Russian forests in the Holocene were related to the development of the production economy of people.

Forests and forestry --- History. --- Life sciences. --- Forestry. --- Life Sciences. --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- Forests and forestry.

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In A Dissimulated Trade , Germán Jiménez-Montes sheds light on the role of foreigners in the Spanish empire. Making use of the rich collection of notarial deeds available at the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Sevilla , this book examines how a group of Dutch, Flemish and German merchants came to dominate the supply of timber in Seville. With this microhistory, Germán Jiménez-Montes offers a new account on the trade between Andalusia and northern Europe at the end of the sixteenth century, focusing on a resource that was essential for Seville's economy and Spain's imperial aspirations.

Early Modern History --- Economic History --- Migration History --- Social History --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- History of Spain --- anno 1500-1599 --- Seville --- Houthandel --- Kooplieden (buitenland) --- Europa, Noord --- Sevilla (Spanje) --- Lumber trade --- Lumber industry --- Timber industry --- Forest products industry --- Lumbering --- Seville (Spain) --- Europe, Northern --- Commerce --- Economic conditions. --- Sevilla (Spain) --- Sevilʹi︠a︡ (Spain) --- Sevilha (Spain) --- Siviglia (Spain) --- Northern Europe