Author: William Robert ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Companies for Foreign Trade, Colonization, Fishing and Mining
Author: William Robert ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Companies for Foreign Trade, Colonization, Fishing and Mining
Author: Going the Distance
Author: Ron HarrisPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691185808
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporation Before the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean. Business was organized in family firms, merchant networks, and state-owned enterprises, and dominated by Chinese, Indian, and Arabic traders. However, around 1600 the first two joint-stock corporations, the English and Dutch East India Companies, were established. Going the Distance tells the story of overland and maritime trade without Europeans, of European Cape Route trade without corporations, and of how new, large-scale, and impersonal organizations arose in Europe to control long-distance trade for more than three centuries. Ron Harris shows that by 1700, the scene and methods for global trade had dramatically changed: Dutch and English merchants shepherded goods directly from China and India to northwestern Europe. To understand this transformation, Harris compares the organizational forms used in four major regions: China, India, the Middle East, and Western Europe. The English and Dutch were the last to leap into Eurasian trade, and they innovated in order to compete. They raised capital from passive investors through impersonal stock markets and their joint-stock corporations deployed more capital, ships, and agents to deliver goods from their origins to consumers. Going the Distance explores the history behind a cornerstone of the modern economy, and how this organizational revolution contributed to the formation of global trade and the creation of the business corporation as a key factor in Europe’s economic rise.
The constitution and finance of English, Scottish and Irish joint-stock companies to 1720
Author: William Richard ScottThe Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-Stock Companies to 1720, Vol. 2
Author: William Robert ScottPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266775744
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Excerpt from The Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-Stock Companies to 1720, Vol. 2: Companies for Foreign Trade, Colonization, Fishing and Mining The present volume treats of several groups of companies, all of which were related, comprising those formed for foreign trade, colonizing and kindred objects, fishing and the extractive industries. In the next volume the water supply, postal, street-lighting, manufacturing, banking, finance and insurance companies will be similarly described. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author: The Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-stock Companies to 1720 (Volume II) Companies for Foreign Trade, Colonization, Fishing and Mining
Author: William Robert ScottPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354001208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Mastering the Worst of Trades
Author: Julie M. SvalastogPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004446214
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
An account of the emergence of England’s earliest chartered Africa companies and their traders. It questions the interaction between company and private interests and their mutual impact on the emerging Atlantic of the seventeenth century and beyond.
The History and Present Position of the Bill of Lading as a Document of Title to Goods
Author: William Porter BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills of lading
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Marketing Sovereign Promises
Author: Gary W. CoxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316565297
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
How did England, once a minor regional power, become a global hegemon between 1689 and 1815? Why, over the same period, did she become the world's first industrial nation? Gary W. Cox addresses these questions in Marketing Sovereign Promises. The book examines two central issues: the origins of the great taxing power of the modern state and how that power is made compatible with economic growth. Part I considers England's rise after the revolution of 1689, highlighting the establishment of annual budgets with shutdown reversions. This core reform effected a great increase in per capita tax extraction. Part II investigates the regional and global spread of British budgeting ideas. Cox argues that states grew only if they addressed a central credibility problem afflicting the Ancien Régime - that rulers were legally entitled to spend public revenue however they deemed fit.