Réseaux d'influences et stratégie coloniale. Le cas des marchands de soie lyonnais en mer de Chine (1843-1906)

This article highlights the utility of the study of business networks in bettering the understanding of the colonial experience. The author uses the case study of the Lyon silk merchants and financiers who created networks destined to better compete with their British counterparts on the Asian markets. Their initial goal was to buïld an integrated System that went from a depot bank to the installation of vast communication and transportation networks in Southeast France in order to link up Lyon and Shanghai. These Liberals, strongly influenced by the philosophy of Saint-Simon, would, little by little, turn their attention to the Tonkin, planning to transform it into the necessary spring board in the conquest of Southwest China markets. To achieve their goals, these businessmen, anchored in a liberal tradition of the Centre Left, would create numerous political des with the republican Opportunists. In so doing, they created the base of what would later be known as the Colonial Party. The author brings out what he calls the linocracy, in other words, " the power of networks "

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