Andrea Colli is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, Italy

Section 1: International trade before the Industrial Revolution: macro-trends and micro-structures 1. International business before the Industrial Revolution: importance and range 2. International business before the Industrial Revolution: strategies and structures Section 2: The age of companies: international business from the modern era to the First Industrial Revolution 3. The age of companies: new actors in international business 4. Privileged companies as early multinationals: strategies and structures Section 3: International business in the First Industrial Revolution (1800s- 1870s) 5. International business in the First Industrial Revolution: the macro-framework 6. International business in the First Industrial Revolution: strategies and structures of the early multinationals Section 4: International business in the first global economy (1870s- 1914): the rise of the modern multinational 7. Technology and international business in an age of globalisation 8. Big Business and the modern multinational: strategies and structures Section 5: International entrepreneurship between crisis and rebirth (1914- 1945) 9. The international economy between crisis and rebirth 10. International Business in the Age of Deglobalisation Section 6. International business in a new global economy (1945- 1990) 11. Rebuilding a new global economy 12. Multinational companies in the post-war international economy Section 7: International business between hyperglobalisation and slowbalisation (1990-the present) 13. From hyperglobalisation to slowbalisation 14. Corporate architectures between globalisation and deglobalisation