Enterprise and History ：Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson

Publication subTitle ：Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson

Author： D. C. Coleman; Peter Mathias  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2006

E-ISBN: 9780511868191

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521031578

Subject： K561 UK

Keyword： 英国

Language： ENG

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Enterprise and History

Description

This collection of original essays is a tribute to Charles Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. They have been written by friends, colleagues and former students to honour him on his seventieth birthday. Running through the essays is the theme of enterprise in history and especially in the two fields in which Charles Wilson has been pre-eminent: business history and the economic relations of England and the Netherlands. As is appropriate for an historian with such international interests, the essays cover a wide field. They include contributions from a number of distinguished economic historians in continental Europe and the USA, as well as essays by several well-known British historians on different aspects of enterprise, including the Industrial Revolution, in Britain. The volume thus presents a comprehensive set of studies of diverse examples of the forms, consequences and interpretations of economic enterprise in history. It will thus be of substantial interest not only to business historians but also to a broad range of economic historians.

Chapter

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

List of contributors

PART I Images and interpretations

1 Comparative business history

The historian's challenge

Business history evolves

Beyond the case-studies

Business history as institutional history

Comparisons of companies

Comparison of industries

National comparisons

Comparative business history

2 Historians and businessmen

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3 Businessmen and their motives

4 'La revolution manquee'

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IV

PART II England and the Low Countries inpre-industrial times

5 Bruges as a trading centre in the earlymodern period

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6 English re-exports and the Dutch staplemarket in the eighteenth century

7 'Little London': British merchants in Rotterdam during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

8 Prejudice and policy: Sir George Downing as parliamentary entrepreneur

9 The lawyer as businessman in eighteenth-century England

PART III Enterprise, finance and politics inthe modern world

10 The Bank of Rome and commercial credit,1880-1914

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11 The scientific brewer: founders and successors during the rise of the modern brewing industry

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VII

12 Large firms in Belgium, 1892-1974: an analysis of their structure and growth1

The problem

Source analysis and methodology

The fifty biggest industrial enterprises

The problem of entry and exit

The characteristics of the permanent core in the top group of the fifty biggest firms

Size and growth in a sectoral perspective

Conclusion

13 'No bloody revolutions but for obstinatereactions'? British coal owners in their context, 1919-201

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14 French oil policy, 1911—30: the interaction between state and private interests*

Introduction

The impact of the First World War

La politique frangaise du petrole

'La liberte du commerce'

La Compagnie Frangaise des Petroles

Un systeme du monopole

15 Reflections on the Dutch economic interests in the East Indies

Bibliography of Charles Wilson's published works

Books and pamphlets

Contributions to collective works

Articles

Review articles

Editorial

Index

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