Author: John Culme Publisher: ACC Distribution ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 560
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4000 biographies of diverse traders, together with 15,000 makers' marks, illustrated and arranged to allow easy identification. Based on the records of Goldsmiths' Hall, this is the most important reference on British 19th-century silver and is essential
Author: Robert J. Bennett Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351662309 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 339
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This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a remarkable new database of more than nine million entrepreneurs, it gives new understanding to the development of Britain as the world’s ‘first industrial nation’. Based on the first long-term whole-population analysis of British small business, it uses novel methods to identify from the 10-yearly population census the two to four million people per year who operated businesses in the period 1851–1911. Using big data analytics, it reveals how British businesses evolved over time, supplementing the census-derived data on individuals with other sources on companies and business histories. By comparing to modern data, it reveals how the late-Victorian period was a ‘golden age’ for smaller and medium-sized business, driven by family firms, the accelerating participation of women and the increasing use of incorporation as significant vehicles for development. A unique resource and citation for future research on entrepreneurship, of crucial significance to economic development policies for small business around the world, and above all the key entry point for researchers to the database which is deposited at the UK Data Archive, this major publication will change our understanding of the scale and economic significance of small businesses in the nineteenth century.
Author: Sander Wennekers Publisher: Now Publishers Inc ISBN: 1601983662 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 82
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Economic Development summarizes and updates the empirical evidence and presents the main lines of reasoning behind the relationship between economic development and entrepreneurship.
Author: Anonymous Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 245
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Simpson's Chelsea, Pimlico, Brompton, and Knightsbridge Directory, and Court Guide is a voluminous and dense directory list of all vestrymen & parish officers in Chelsea, compiled by anonymous authors.
Author: François Crouzet Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521088718 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 244
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This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of the founders of modem British industry: what kind of families did they come from? What was their occupation before they set up as industrialists? In discussing these and other issues, this study makes an important contribution to the problem of social mobility during the Industrial Revolution.
Author: Roderick Floud Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107038464 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 607
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A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.