Author: Henry BlissPublisher: London : J. Richardson
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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The Colonial System
Author: Henry BlissPublisher: London : J. Richardson
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Financial and Trade Statistics of the Colonial Empire
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Statistics of Colonial Trade
Author: R. F. ScottThe Colonial System
Author: Henry BlissPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265166291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Excerpt from The Colonial System: Statistics of the Trade, Industry and Resources of Canada and the Other Plantations in British America To plant vacant countries, acquired by conquest or dis covery, to afford and exact mutual advantages, for their productions in our markets, and in theirs for our manu factures, and thus to create new and independent means of supplying our wants, multiplying our population, and extending our power, is, and for nearly two centuries has been, the Colonial System of Great Britain; with various modifications, indeed, and occasional excep tions, bounties and prohibitions having now, in general, given way to such protecting duties as are sufficient for securing a decided preference to native industry, and at the same time, by dread of foreign competition, exciting to the utmost, invention, frugality, and exertion. 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.
The Colonial System
Author: Henry BlissPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781358285424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Statistics of Spain's colonial trade, 1792-1820
Author: Javier Cuenca EstebanThe Balance Sheets of Imperialism
Author: Grover ClarkPublisher: New York : Russell & Russell
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
American Business History: a Very Short Introduction
Author: Walter A. FriedmanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190622474
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's massive manufactory as the embodiment of America: "While Athens had its Parthenon and Rome its Colosseum, the United States had its River Rouge Factory in Detroit..." How did business come to assume such power and cultural centrality in America? This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society. It introduces readers to formative business leaders (including Elbert Gary, Harlow Curtice, and Mary Kay Ash), leading firms (Mellon Bank, National Cash Register, Xerox), and fiction about business people (The Octopus, Babbitt, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit). It also discusses Alfred Chandler, Joseph Schumpeter, Mira Wilkins, and others who made significant contributions to understanding of America's business history. This VSI pursues its three central themes - the evolution, scale, and culture of American business - in a chronological framework stretching from the American Revolution to today. The first theme is evolution: How has U.S. business evolved over time? How have American companies competed with one another and with foreign firms? Why have ideas about strategy and management changed? Why did business people in the mid-twentieth century celebrate an "organizational" culture promising long-term employment in the same company, while a few decades later entrepreneurship was prized? Second is scale: Why did business assume such enormous scale in the United States? Was the rise of gigantic corporations due to the industriousness of its population, or natural resources, or government policies? And third, culture: What are the characteristics of a "business civilization"? How have opinions on the meaning of business changed? In the late nineteenth century, Andrew Carnegie believed that America's numerous enterprises represented an exuberant "triumph of democracy." After World War II, however, sociologist William H. Whyte saw business culture as stultifying, and historian Richard Hofstadter wrote, "Once great men created fortunes; today a great system creates fortunate men." How did changes in the nature of business affect popular views? Walter A. Friedman provides the long view of these important developments.
Shipping, Maritime Trade and the Economic Development of Colonial North America
Author: James F. ShepherdPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521169424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1972, this study is of the North American colonial economy from the middle of the seventeenth century to the American Revolution, with emphasis on the later years. The authors use quantitative analysis to prove that productivity was increasing not so much because of technological change, but rather because of improvements in market organization and reduced risks of business enterprise within markets. In the first part of the book the authors present a theoretical framework for examining the general aspects of long-term economic development in the colonies. In the second part they discuss shipping and overseas trade in detail. They examine costs of shipping and distribution; sources of productivity change; commodity trade with overseas markets; and finally a number of other influences on the colonial balance of frameworks. Several statistical appendices supporting the authors' argument follow the text.
Financial and Trade Statistics of the Colonial Empire ... for Presentation to the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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