Author: Terence Richard GourvishPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Railways and the British Economy
Author: Terence Richard GourvishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Railways and the British economy 1830 - 1914
Author: Railways and the Economic Development of Western Europe, 1830-1914
Author: Patrick O'BrienPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134906324X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Railway in England and Wales, 1830-1914: The system and its working
Author: Jack SimmonsPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Railway in Town and Country, 1830-1914
Author: Jack SimmonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830-1940
Author: Geoffrey ChannonPublisher: Ashgate Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In a series of focused, thematic essays, the book examines railways as the first modern big businesses in Britain and the United States.
Railways and the Economic Development of Western Europe, 1830-1914
Author: Patrick Karl O'BrienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830-1940
Author: Geoffrey ChannonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138723818
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001. This approach is that of a business and economic historian who is interested in issues of organization, management and corporate strategy, as well as in the men who ran these giant enterprises and the workers they employed. The book is presented as a series of case studies and focussed essays. It is concerned with many of the broader perspectives and issues of business history such as the "Chandler thesis"; the debate about ownerhsip, management and control in large enterprises; the social origins and careers of business leaders; the relationship between big businesses and government; the nature of technological change; and the rhetoric and reality of corporate culture. The British and American experiences are compared and contrasted. The book draws on diverse archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic, and is a distinctive and valuable contribution to railway and business history.
British Economic and Social History
Author: R. C. RichardsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719036002
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Bread and the British Economy, 1770–1870
Author: Christian PetersenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351954822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In this ambitious book Christian Petersen has taken a central topic in economic and social history and given it a new sweep and coherence. As the Lord’s Prayer suggests, securing an adequate supply of bread was a matter of over-riding concern to everyone until very recently. Bread was always by far the largest single item in the budgets of the poor, but bread could be made from many grains - wheat, rye, barley etc. Christian Petersen describes how in the later eighteenth century the process of replacing other cereals by wheat in bread making was completed throughout Britain. He provides a continuous series of estimates of bread consumption per caput, of bread prices (and, consequently, used in conjunction with population data, of total national expenditure on bread), and of wheat output and net imports. The implications of the changes in techniques of milling and baking that occurred are analysed, and the organisation of the baking and retailing of bread is described. Bread was so central to the economy of individual households and to the national economy as a whole that this book represents a major contribution to the history of the British economy and of British society in the period 1770-1870.