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Name:  Claus Gossler
Email:  Claus.Gossler at freenet.de
Institution:  none

Co-author:  none

Title: Die Société commerciale de l'Océani (1876-1914). Aufstieg und Untergang der Hamburger Godeffroys in Ost-Polynesien.

Internet Address of abstracted work: not available

By mail:
Claus Gossler
Eichenweg 10 B
D-21465 Wentorf
Germany

Language: German

Abstract:
The company researched into was a joint-stock 
company registered in Hamburg whose center of 
commercial activity was located in Papeete, 
Tahiti, Society Islands. This trading company 
exported local products from these islands, such 
as copra, mother of pearl shells, cotton and 
vanilla to Europe, the US and Latin America while 
importing manufactured goods and food stuffs from 
these countries for distribution on the islands. 
It operated between three and five trading 
stations on other islands at different times for 
collection and distribution, and it owned 
schooners for transporting their goods and for a 
time also plantations. It was the most important 
trading company in the area until the beginning 
of WWI, when it was expropriated by the French. 
From the correspondence of which a major part was 
handed down and is deposited at the Hamburg State 
Archive the author was not only able to 
reconstruct turnover figures, balance sheets and 
profit and loss statements for most of the years, 
but also to portray the personalities of their 
managers, their staff, some customers and all 
competitors. Critical analysis of their managers' 
actions and decisions are part of the study as 
well as a detailed picture of the social, 
political and economic circumstances under which 
the company had to operate.

Bibliography: Gossler, Claus. "Die Société 
commerciale de l'Océanie (1876-1914)." Aufstieg 
und Untergang der Hamburger Godeffroys in 
Ost-Polynesien. 2006.

Verfasser:  Gossler, Claus
Ausgabe:  1. Aufl.
Erschienen:  Bremen : MontAurum, 2006

Umfang:  592 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 2100 mm x 1480 mm
ISBN:  *Pb. : EUR 44.90 - ISBN 3-937729-20-8 *Pb. : EUR 44.90
Link: 
http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2868153&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm


Subject:  B
Geographical Area:  3
Country/Region:  East-Polynesia
Time Period:  7

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