Enterprise And Trade In Victorian Britain
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Author | : D. N. McCloskey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134558341 |
The essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War. The overriding theme is that Britain's own resources were consistently more productive, more resilient and more successful than is normally assumed. And if the economy's achievement was considerable, the influence on it of external factors (trade, international competition, policy) were much less significant than is normally supposed. The book is structured as follows: Part One: The Method of Historical Economics Part Two: Enterprise in Late Victorian Britain Part Three: Britain in the World Economy, 1846-1913.
Author | : Charles Harvey |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Artisans |
ISBN | : 9780719024191 |
The many achievements of William Morris are described in this volume, which explores his multifaceted career as a political writer and activist, an artist and designer, a man of letters, and a successful businessman.
Author | : D. N. McCloskey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134558279 |
The essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War. The overriding theme is that Britain's own resources were consistently more productive, more resilient and more successful than is normally assumed. And if the economy's achievement was considerable, the influence on it of external factors (trade, international competition, policy) were much less significant than is normally supposed. The book is structured as follows: Part One: The Method of Historical Economics Part Two: Enterprise in Late Victorian Britain Part Three: Britain in the World Economy, 1846-1913.
Author | : Deirdre N. McCloskey |
Publisher | : London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Economic history |
ISBN | : 9780049421707 |
Author | : Stanley Chapman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521893626 |
Studies of the British Industrial Revolution and of the Victorian period of economic and social development have until very recently concentrated on British industries and industrial regions, while commerce and finance, and particularly that of London, have been substantially neglected. This has distorted our view of the process of change, since financial services and much trade continued to be centred on the metropolis, and the south-east region never lost its position at the top of the national league of wealth.
Author | : David S. Landes |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2012-02-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 069115452X |
This work provides a sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopotamia and Neo-Babylon; carries the reader through the Islamic Middle East; offers insights into the entrepreneurial history of China, Japan, and colonial India; and describes the crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovation activity in the Western world.
Author | : Leah Price |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400842182 |
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Author | : Chris Williams |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405143096 |
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essaysby expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political,social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the lateGeorgian and Victorian eras. Truly British, rather than English, in scope. Pays attention to the experiences of women as well as ofmen. Illustrated with maps and charts. Includes guides to further reading.
Author | : Andrew Marrison |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2002-01-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134731825 |
This book examines the Corn Laws and their repeal. It brings together leading international experts working in the field from Britain, Europe and the United States. Their contributions range widely over the history, politics and economics of free trade and protectionism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; together they provide a landmark study of a vitally important subject, and one which remains at the top of today's international agenda.
Author | : John R. Davis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349256919 |
Between 1848 and 1866 the Zollverein went through a series of momentous crises and the issue of commercial organization became increasingly politicized. Austro-Prussian rivalry, industrialization, and liberalism, created a tense atmosphere in which Britain had enormous influence. Using a wide range of German and British sources this study shows how Britain, blindfolded by doctrinaire Free Trade and institutional inadequacy, failed to grasp the connotations of its own actions in the German states and how misinterpretation began to sour Anglo-German relations.