ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the global trade relations in which the business of the Leipzig fur capital was engaged and how these relations constructed links to the outside world. It investigates the changing structure of the world market in furs during the long nineteenth century, defining and retracing its main movements and developments. The chapter explains how these developments intersected with the history of the fur capital and its emergence. It endeavours to retrace the position of Leipzig on the world market. The chapter focuses on how firms created links with the outside world. It claims that most of the firms of the capital engaged in global networks and showed the creativity and resourcefulness to participate in the world trade of furs. The emergence of Leipzig as an industrial district has to be placed within a context of increased global fur manufacturing and trading. It emerges in a world market that was in full expansion.
