Volume 60 (2015), Edition 1

The short dream of an industrial nuclear age. The failed entry of the West German chemical industry into nuclear power during the 1960s and 70s. With the increase in energy consumption during the boom years the composition of energy sources in West...

The 1970s are a crucial decade for understanding the modern financial landscape but it is still relatively unexplored in financial history. It was marked by the end of the Bretton Woods regime, the progressive liberalisation of finance, the return...

This article examines a set of German immigrant entrepreneurs in the Belgian fur industry before the First World War. Their role as «transnational entrepreneurs» organising cross-border firm activities in relation to economic integration and trade...

When the guns fell silent in Europe after the Third Reich’s unconditional surrender in May 1945, the Netherlands was confronted with the fact that Germany, its most important trading partner since the late19th century, was in ruins. In the pre-war...