Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities: The British Trade Corporation, 1917-1926

by Brian O'Sullivan

This book is the first comprehensive history of the British Trade Corporation, which was constituted under a Royal Charter on 21st April 1917. Its charter was meant to last for sixty years, but in 1926, after a turbulent existence of only nine years, it was amalgamated with the Anglo-Austrian Bank, and absorbed into the Anglo-International Bank.

The corporation together with its two main subsidiaries, the Levant Company and the National...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031583027
• ISBN13: 9783031583025
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 7.9"