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Author : M. C. Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Investment in Railways in Britain, 1820-1844 written by M. C. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. C. Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Investment in Railways in Britain, 1820-1844 written by M. C. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice W. Kirby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892803
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Railway Enterprise written by Maurice W. Kirby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the significance of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in Britain's industrialisation.
Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134982763
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Society and Economy in Modern Britain 1700-1850 written by Richard Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both contemporaries and later historians the Industrial Revolution is viewed as a turning point' in modern British history. There is no doubt that change occurred, but what was the nature of that change and how did affect rural and urban society? Beginning with an examination of the nature of history and Britain in 1700, this volume focuses on the economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Unlike many previous textbooks on the same period, it emphasizes British history, and deals with developments in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in their own right. It is the emphasis on the diversity, not the uniformity of experience, on continuities as well as change in this crucial period of development, which makes this volume distinctive. In his companion title Richard Brown completes his examination of the period and looks at the changes that took place in Britain's political system and in its religious affiliations.
Author : C.J.A. Robertson
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788853415
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Origins of the Scottish Railway System written by C.J.A. Robertson and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By comparison with their English counterparts, Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians. Most of the existing literature is written for the railway enthusiast, concentrating mainly on topography, mechanical developments and entertaining episodes. Few of these books cover the whole of Scotland and most are treatments of single companies or of particular dramatic events. This study covers the earliest period of Scottish railway history, from the years of the first waggonway developments in the eighteenth century to the advent of the railway mania of the 1840s. It concentrates on the planning and formation of the various railways, the problems and achievements associated with their construction, and the financial records of the companies up to 1844. The first two chapters cover the horse-drawn waggonways of the eighteenth century and the coal railways of the early nineteenth century, while Chapters 3–5 cover the railways of the 1830s and 1840s.
Author : Ian Carter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719059667
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Railways and Culture in Britain written by Ian Carter and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.
Author : Gerald Newman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815303961
Total Pages : 1284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837 written by Gerald Newman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1714, king George I ushered in a remarkable 123-year period of energy that changed the face of Britain and ultimately had a profound effect on the modern era. The pioneers of modern capitalism, industry, democracy, literature, and even architecture flourished during this time and their innovations and influence spread throughout the British empire, including the United States. Now this rich cultural period in Britain is effectively surveyed and summarized for quick reference in a first-of-its-kind encyclopedia, which contains entries by British, Canadian, American, and Australian scholars specializing in everything from finance and the fine arts to politics and patent law. More than 380 illustrations, mostly rare engravings, enhance the coverage, which runs the whole gamut of political, economic, literary, intellectual, artistic, commercial, and social life, and spotlights some 600 prominent individuals and families.
Author : B. R. Mitchell
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521330084
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)
Download or read book British Historical Statistics written by B. R. Mitchell and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-09-08 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 reference book provides the major economic and social statistical series for the British Isles from the twelfth century up until 1980-81. The text provides informed access to a wide range of economic data, without the labour of identifying sources or of transforming many different annual sources into a comparable time series.
Author : Nancy Henry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253003431
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Victorian Investments written by Nancy Henry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Investments explores the relationship between the financial system in Great Britain and other aspects of Victorian society and culture. Building on the special journal issue of Victorian Studies devoted to Victorian investments, this volume is the first to define an interdisciplinary field of study emerging in the space between Marxist critiques of capitalism and traditional histories of business and economics. The contributors demonstrate how phenomena such as the expansion of colonial and foreign markets, the broadening of the investor base through the advent of limited liability, and the rise of financial journalism gave rise to a "culture of investment" that affected Victorian Britons at every level of society and influenced every kind of cultural production. Drawing together work by prominent historians as well as literary and cultural critics, Victorian Investments both defines the methodologies and perspectives that characterize an existing body of scholarship and pushes that scholarship in new directions, demonstrating the signal role of economic developments in Victorian culture and society.
Author : Sarah Stockwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351882708
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume III written by Sarah Stockwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few aspects of the history of modern empires are of such significance as their economics and politics. These factors are inextricably linked in many analyses, have generated extensive historiographical debate and are currently the subject of some of the freshest and liveliest scholarship. The articles and chapters which are brought together in this volume relate not only to the European colonial empires, but also to the Napoleonic, Russian and Japanese empires. The collection is strongly comparative in approach with the articles arranged into thematic sections on: the place of politics and economics in the rise and fall of modern empires; the causal relationship between modern empires and colonial, global, and metropolitan economic transformations; and the ’technologies of rule’ which provided the frameworks through which colonial economies were managed, and rights defined. The collection reflects new approaches, as well as the continuing importance of issues addressed in an older historiography, and the thematic arrangement produces useful juxtapositions of older and newer literatures. The substantial introduction explores the themes and identifies key historiographical trends in relation to each.
Author : Ron Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521662758
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Industrializing English Law written by Ron Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2000 book addresses the discrepancy between the developing economy of England and the stagnant legal framework of business organization between 1720 and 1844.
Author : Derek Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134177917
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book A History of Auditing written by Derek Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of the audit process in Britain, demonstrating that the characteristic features of the auditing industry are a diversity in practice based largely on the different types of clients the auditors serve.
Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136753273
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The First Industrial Nation written by Peter Mathias and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This celebrated and seminal text examines the industrial revolution, from its genesis in pre-industrial Britain, through its development and into maturity. A chapter-by-chapter analysis explores topics such as economic growth, agriculture, trade finance, labour and transport. First published in 1969, The First Industrial Nation is widely recognised as a classic text for students of the industrial revolution.
Author : R.J.B. Morris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315525356
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Local Government, Local Legislation written by R.J.B. Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-Victorian period, when British international influence and power were at their height, concerns about local economic and social conditions were only slowly coming to be recognised as part of the obligations and expectations of central government. Adopting a legal history perspective, this study reveals how municipal authorities of this period had few public law powers to regulate local conditions, or to provide services, and thus the more enterprising went direct to Parliament to obtain – at a price – the passing specific local Bills to address their needs. Identifying and analysing for the first time the 335 local Parliamentary Bills promoted by local authorities in the period from the passing of the Local Government Act 1858 to the first annual report of the Local Government Board in 1872, the book draws three main conclusions from this huge mass of local statute book material. The first is that, far from being an uncoordinated mass of inconsistent, quixotic provisions, these Acts have a substantial degree of cohesion as a body of material. Second, the towns and cities of northern England secured more than half of them. Thirdly, the costs of promotions (and the vested interests involved in them) represented a huge and often wasteful outlay that a more pragmatic and forward-looking Parliamentary attitude could have greatly reduced.
Author : Amy Edwards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520385470
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Are We Rich Yet? written by Amy Edwards and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of how finance remade everyday life in Thatcher's Britain. Are We Rich Yet? tells the story of the financialization of British society. During the 1980s and 1990s, financial markets became part of daily life for many Britons as the practice of investing moved away from the offices of the City of London, onto Britain’s high streets, and into people’s homes. The Conservative Party claimed this shift as evidence that capital ownership was in the process of being democratized. In practice, investing became more institutionalized than ever in late-twentieth-century Britain: inclusion frequently meant tying one’s fortunes to the credit, insurance, pension, and mortgage industries to maintain independence from state-run support systems. In tracing the rise of a consumer-oriented mass investment culture, historian Amy Edwards explains how the "financial" became such a central part of British society, not only economically and politically, but socially and culturally, too. She shifts our focus away from the corridors of Whitehall and towards a cast of characters that included brokers, bankers and traders, newspaper editors, goods manufacturers, marketing departments, production companies, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and women. Between them, they shaped the terrain upon which political and economic reform occurred. Grappling with the interactions between structural transformation and the rhythms of everyday life, Are We Rich Yet? thus understands the rise of neoliberalism as something other than the inevitable outcome of a carefully orchestrated right-wing political revolution.
Author : P.L. Cottrell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136597352
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Industrial Finance, 1830-1914 written by P.L. Cottrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change was, inevitably, the development of new types of finance adapted to the radically new environment. An appreciation of the history of these developments makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of the growth and development of the British economy in one of its most dramatic phases. Philip Cottrell has written an impressively documented full-scale survey of this crucial period, discussing finance in the context of sweeping reforms of company law, unprecedented technological change and economic expansion, and the institutional effects of all of these. He is primarily concerned with English manufacturing industry but frequently refers, by way of comparison, to extractive industry, Scottish and Welsh developments and the economies of other West European countries. As well as providing a comprehensive overview, the book pays particular attention to coal, iron and textiles amongst the industries and, at the level of organization, to the emergence of the joint stock limited liability company and its gradual adoption by industrialists. The relationship between commercial banks and manufacturing receives detailed consideration and the role of internally accumulated funds and trade credit is discussed. this classic book was first published in 1980.
Author : Mark Casson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191570419
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The World's First Railway System written by Mark Casson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes. This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done. It reveals how weaknesses in regulation and defects in government policy resulted in enormous inefficiency in the Victorian system that Britain lives with today. British railway companies developed into powerful regional monopolies, which then contested each other's territories. When denied access to existing lines in rival territories, they built duplicate lines instead. Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these surplus lines led ultimately to higher fares and freight charges, which impaired the performance of the economy. The book will be the definitive source of reference for those interested in the economic history of the British railway system. It makes use of a major new historical source, deposited railway plans, integrates transport and local history through its regional analysis of the railway system, and provides a comprehensive, classified bibliography.
