We're going to talk about the 19th century economy over the next few weeks. It was in the 19th century that you get something like a global economy. Why? Today we take a quick look at how factories, finance and the firm knit the world together, only to collapse with the start of the First World War.Books:The Cambridge History of CapitalismThe Cambridge Economic History of Modern BritainEric Hobsbawm, Age of Revolution and Age of Capital and Age of EmpireRichard Grossman, Unsettled AccountThomas McGraw, ed., Creating Modern Capitalism