Finance and Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain

Volume II: The World of the Stock Exchange
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-44856-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

This four-volume primary source collection examines the links between the financial world and British culture in the nineteenth-century. The twenty-first-century financial world had its origins in nineteenth-century Britain with industrialism, imperial expansion, and a robust securities market. New developments in limited liability and financial journalism democratized investment, rendering Victorian Britain a nation of shareholders. The City of London and the London Stock Exchange sat at the very centre of international finance, much as the New York Stock Exchange does today.

The history of nineteenth-century finance is also the history of culture and cultural change. Finance cut across all aspects of life in the nineteenth-century. It was central to many social and political issues, including the “woman question” (should women invest their own money?) and Liberal reform (did a laissez-faire economy adequately protect ordinary investors?) The ups and downs of the stock market were also central to the plots of Victorian novels and plays.
This multi-volume collection of primary source materials, accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, document the origins, growth, and impact of Britain’s financial system.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robb, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume II

Part 1. The Stock Exchange

1. [Anon.], “A Peep into the Stock Exchange,” Metropolitan Magazine 2 (October 1831), pp. 168-74.

2. [Anon.], “The Stock Exchange,” Fraser’s Magazine 4 (December 1831), pp. 577-85.

3. Henry May, ‘The London Stock Exchange’, Fortnightly Review 44 (1885), pp. 566-80.

4. Godefroi Drew Ingall, ‘The London Stock Exchange’, in George R. Sims, ed., Living London (London: Cassell and Co., 1901), Vol 1, pp. 261-66.

5. H. Norman and G.C. Ashton Johnson, ‘The London Stock Exchange’, Century Magazine 66 (May-October 1903), pp. 177-94.

6. W.C. Van Antwerp, The Stock Exchange from Within (Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), pp. 332-78.

Part 2. Stockbrokers and Financiers

7. Francis Baily, The Rights of the Stock Brokers Defended Against the Attacks of the City of London (London: W.J. and J. Richardsons, 1806), pp. v, 1, 3-5, 7-9, 12-14, 18-19, 31-32.

8. Francis Chiswell, Key to the Rules of the Stock Exchange (London: Effingham Wilson, 1902), pp. 28-34.

9. [Anon.], ‘Sworn Brokers’, Truth 4 (12 September 1878), pp. 306-7.

10. Henry Fox Bourne, Famous London Merchants: A Book for Boys (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1869), pp. 231-48.

11. Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby; or, The New Generation, 3 Vols. (London: Henry Colburn, 1844), Vol. 2, pp. 117-41.

12. Charles Clarke, ‘How the Balance Came Out: A Tale of the Stock Exchange’, Temple Bar 19 (December 1866), pp. 120-37.

13. Henry Osborne O’Hagan, Leaves from My Life, 2 Vols. (London: John Lane, 1929), Vol. 1, pp. 149-56, Vol. 2, pp. 1-6.

14. Margaret Bateson, Professional Women Upon Their Professions: Conversations (London: Horace Cox, 1895), pp.70-73.

15. Maurice Mortimer, “Fashionable Feminine Financiers,” Grand Magazine 5 (July 1907), pp. 875-81.

16. Olive Christian Malvery, The Speculator (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1908), pp. 1-12, 22-29, 40-47.

Part 3. Stock Exchange Business and Customs

17. Rules and Regulations Adopted by the Committee for General Purposes of the Stock Exchange (London: Stephan Couchman, 1812).

18. Rudolph E. Melsheimer and Samuel Gardner, The Law and Customs of the Stock Exchange, 4th Edition (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1905), pp. 9-33.

19. Hartley Withers, ‘The Mechanism of the Stock Exchange’, Cornhill Magazine 76 (October 1897), pp. 490-99.

20. E.C. Maddison, On the Stock Exchange: An Explanation of Stocks and Stock-Jobbing (London: Charles and Edwin Layton, 1877), pp. 39-49.

21. W. Clauson-Thue, A.B.C. Universal Commercial Electric Telegraphic Code: Specially Adapted for the Use of Financiers, Merchants, Shipowners, Brokers, Agents, Etc. (New York: The American Code Publishing Company, 1899), pp. v-vii.

22. Julian Stern, An Experiment in Respectability (London: Downey and Company, 1895), pp. 141-52.

23. John Francis, Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849), pp. 328-37.

24. George Duckworth-Atkin, House Scraps (London: Stock Exchange, 1887), pp. 12-13, 16-17.

25. Julius E. Day, The Stockbroker’s Office: Organisation, Management and Accounts (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1911), pp. 100-14.

Part 4. The Stock Exchange and Its Critics

26. Thomas Mortimer, The Nefarious Practice of Stock-Jobbing Unveiled (London: J.M. Richardson, 1810), pp. 35-43.

27. George Augustus Sala, Gaslight and Daylight, with Some London Scenes They Shine Upon (London: Chapman and Hall, 1859), pp. 135-45.

28. Francis Playford, Practical Hints for Investing Money, with An Explanation on the Mode of Transacting Business on the Stock Exchange (London: Virtue Brothers and Co., 1864), pp. 69-73.

29. [Anon.], “The Stock Exchange,” St. Paul’s Magazine 6 (September 1870), pp. 605-18.

30. W., ‘Stockbroking and the Stock Exchange’, Fraser’s Magazine 94 (July 1876), pp. 84-103.

31. Charles Branch, ‘A Defense of the Stock Exchange’, Fraser’s Magazine 94 (October 1876), pp. 493-503.

32. Royal Commission on the Stock Exchange, Parliamentary Papers, 1878, Vol. XIX, Report, pp. 5-27.

33. [Anon.], ‘The Business Morality of the Stock Exchange’, The Economist (November 1, 1890), pp. 1379-80.

34. Erasmus Pinto, Ye Outside Fools!: Glimpses Inside the London Stock Exchange (New York: Lovell, Adam, Wesson, and Company, 1877), pp. 41-47.

35. C.J. Scotter, Lost in a Bucket-Shop: A Story of Stock Exchange Speculation (London: Field and Tuer, 1890), pp. 1-43.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

George Robb is a Professor of British history at William Paterson University of New Jersey. For more than thirty years he has researched and written about British and American financial history.