Business in the Age of Reason

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-76119-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 231 g

First Published in 1987. Representing a range of eighteenth-century research, these articles clarify or reorientate the historical origins of many of the chief themes of more recent business history. They include the areas of The Harburgh Company from 1716 to 1723; institutional experimentation in the London-Maryland Trade; banking in London in the 1700s; the pottery trade before 1780; the Birmingham Economy; Boulton and Wedgwood; financing the French navy; and directions of conduct in a merchant’s counting house.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davenport-Hines, R P T

Liebenau, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 The Harburgh Company and its Lottery 1716–23, A.J.G. Cummings; Chapter 2 Sheffeild V. Starke: Institutional Experimentation in the London–Maryland Trade c. 1696–1706, Jacob M. Price; Chapter 3 Deposit Banking in London, 1700–90, Frank T. Melton; Chapter 4 The Business of Middleman in the English Pottery Trade Before 1780, Lorna Weatherill; Chapter 5 The Trading and Service Sectors of the Birmingham Economy 1750–1800, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 6 Matthew Boulton and Josiah Wedgwood, Apostles of Fashion, Eric Robinson; Chapter 7 Financing the French Navy in the Seven Years War: Beaujon, Goossens Et Compagnie in 1759, J.F. Bosher; Chapter 8 Directions for the Conduct of a Merchant’s Counting House, 1766, Jacob M. Price;

Über Autor(innen)

R.P.T. Davenport-Hines, Jonathan Liebenau