Author: Henry EnglishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A Compendium of Useful Information Relating to the Companies Formed for Working British Mines
Author: Henry EnglishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
Author: London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
Author: Invested
Author: Paul CrosthwaitePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226821005
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Introduction : three centuries of financial advice -- Making the market (1720-1800) -- Navigating the market (1800-1870) -- Playing the market (1870-1910) -- Chartists and fundamentalists (1910-1950) -- Domestic budgets and efficient markets (1950-1990) -- Gurus and robots (1990-2020) -- Conclusion : investing through the crisis.
Creating Capitalism
Author: James TaylorPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0861933230
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The growth of joint-stock business in Victorian Britain re-evaluated, showing in particular the resistance to it. Winner of the Economic History Society's Best First Monograph award 2009 The emergence of the joint-stock company in nineteenth-century Britain was a culture shock for many Victorians. Though the home of the industrialrevolution, the nation's economy was dominated by the private partnership, seen as the most efficient as well as the most ethical form of business organisation. The large, impersonal company and the rampant speculation it was thought to encourage were viewed with suspicion and downright hostility. This book argues that the existing historiography understates society's resistance to joint-stock enterprise; it employs an eclectic range of sources, fromnewspapers and parliamentary papers to cartoons, novels and plays, to unearth this forgotten economic debate. It explores how the legal system was gradually restructured to facilitate joint-stock enterprise, a process culminatingin the limited liability legislation of the mid-1850s. This has typically been interpreted as evidence for the emergence of new, positive attitudes to speculation and economic growth, but the book demonstrates how traditional outlooks continued to influence legislation, and the way in which economic reforms were driven by political agendas. It shows how debates on the economic culture of nineteenth-century Britain are strikingly relevant to current questions over the ethics of multinational corporations. James Taylor is Senior Lecturer in British History at Lancaster University.
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion
Author: Elizabeth Carolyn MillerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691205531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mining The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form. Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which put its novelists and other writers in the remarkable position of mediating the emergence of extraction-based life. Miller looks at works like Hard Times, The Mill on the Floss, and Sons and Lovers, showing how the provincial realist novel’s longstanding reliance on marriage and inheritance plots transforms against the backdrop of exhaustion to withhold the promise of reproductive futurity. She explores how adventure stories like Treasure Island and Heart of Darkness reorient fictional space toward the resource frontier. And she shows how utopian and fantasy works like “Sultana’s Dream,” The Time Machine, and The Hobbit offer imaginative ways of envisioning energy beyond extractivism. This illuminating book reveals how an era marked by violent mineral resource rushes gave rise to literary forms and genres that extend extractivism as a mode of environmental understanding.
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Smithsonian Physical Tables
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description