Author: Charles SellersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Port wine
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Oporto, Old and New
Author: Charles SellersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Port wine
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Papers of Henry Laurens
Author: Henry LaurensPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872492288
Category : Laurens, Henri
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Oporto Older and Newer
Author: Gerald CobbThe History of the Wine Trade in England
Author: André Louis SimonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The European Yearbook of Business History
Author: T. R. GourishPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351789805
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001. A collection of research and review articles, in English, on the history of private enterprise based in European countries, as well as studies of transnational, public and state corporations. The period of interest covers the 19th and 20th centuries.
Footnotes to History
Author: Nigel HarrisPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 178284208X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book brings a novel focus to social history. It is a study of a "group family" -- an extended family closely structured though marriages that were either internal or with trusted associates. Its members strove cooperatively for their own mutual benefit. This kind of social entity evolved down the centuries, reaching its zenith in the early nineteenth century. The family portrayed, the Pennells, provides a supreme example of such a united body. John Wilson Croker, his two half-nieces and his best friend all married into it. The size of this "group family" gave ample scope for marriages between cousins. Most men in it gained prestigious appointments through Croker's patronage, but at the price of giving him their unswerving loyalty. From diaries, personal letters, newspaper articles, Chancery papers and Government documents, the book brings the character of family members to life and shows how they interacted. Their personalities are portrayed through a wealth of entertaining anecdotes recorded by their contemporaries. Discussion focuses on the family in the nineteenth century, but how it evolved is also described. With their varied occupations and far-flung travel, the people whose stories are narrated give insight into fascinating but little frequented byways of British social and colonial history, such as intelligence gathering in the seventeenth century and the Newfoundland cod trade in the eighteenth. Their direct participation in events included riding from Dorset to London to warn James II personally of the Duke of Monmouth's landing and rescuing Marie Antoinette's daughter from Napoleon. The book takes us on a meandering journey through British history brought to life by the experiences of one family over more than two centuries.
The Portugal Trade
Author: H.E.S FisherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136594345
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Historians have long considered the ways in which the expansion of English trade beyond Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contributed to the growth of English overseas trade as a whole, and to the coming of the Industrial Revolution. Their concentration on trade between England and her own colonies has led them, however, to neglect the importance of trade with the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. Dr Fisher’s examination of Anglo-Portuguese trade between 1700 and 1770, and of the commercial links between the English North American colonies and Portugal, thus gives a wider perspective to our knowledge of the English ‘Commercial Revolution’. This study, based on a wide range of primary sources in England and Portugal, analyses the impressive growth of English trade with Portugal to 1760 and its subsequent decline in the 1760s, particular attention being given to the role of the Brazilian market and Brazilian gold-mining in these movements. The business practice of the merchants engaged in the principal constituent branches of the trade—textiles, foodstuffs, wines, and gold—is made clear and compared, while the characteristic instability of international commerce is borne out in the examination of the seasonal and yearly fluctuations which took place. On a more general level, the concluding chapter explores the relationship between the Portugal trade and the development of the English economy during this period. This book was first published in 1971.
The New International Encyclopd̆ia
Author: The New International Encyclopaedia
Author: Daniel Coit GilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
The New International Encyclopæeia
Author: Daniel Coit GilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description