Richards The Leviathan of Wealth

The Sutherland fortune in the industrial revolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-03185-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Published in the year 2006, The Leviathan of Wealth is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richards, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Leviathan of Wealth

1. The House of Sutherland

2. James Loch, 'The Sutherland Metternich'

Part Two: The House of Sutherland and the Coming of the Railways

3. The Problematical inheritance

4. The Challenge and the Response

5. The Way of Compromise

6. A Position of Influence

7. The Edge of the Precipice

8. A Golden Opportunity

9. Transport Capitalism in the Early 1830s

10. Uneasy Co-existence

11. Into and Out of the Vortex

Part Three: The Sutherland Clearances

12. Sutherland and the Highland Problem

13. William Young and Patrick Sellar

14. The Reaffirmation of the Sutherland Policy

15. Capital, Labour and Prices in the New Economy

16. Progress, Poverty and Criticism

17. Famine and the Final Years

Part Four: Perspectives

18. The Uses of an Aristocratic fortune