Author: Rodri Havard WaltersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Economic and Business History of the South Wales Steam Coal Industry, 1840-1914
Author: Rodri Havard WaltersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Economic and Business History of the South Wales Steam Coal Industry, 1840-1914
Author: Rhodri Havard WaltersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Economic Development of the British Coal Industry 1800-1914
Author: B. R. MitchellPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521265010
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Provides an account of the economic development of the British coal industry from 1800 to the First World War.
Labour Productivity in the South Wales Steam-coal Industry, 1840-1914
Author: Rhodri WaltersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal trade
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The History of the British Coal Industry: 1830-1913, Victorian pre-eminence
Author: Michael Walter FlinnPublisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society 1895-1937
Author: Tim WrightPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521258784
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book provides an important contribution to the economic history of modern China. It examines the history of the coal mining industry - one of China's largest and most important - from the beginnings of modernisation around 1895 to the start of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. It addresses questions of both economic and socio-political history and contributes to our knowledge of many aspects of early twentieth-century Chinese history. It examines the slow growth of the modern sector of the Chinese economy and considers the effects of foreign investment and ownership, the supply of capital, the technology of production, the availability of local entrepreneurship and compares the evolution of the Chinese coal industry with development elsewhere. This book will be of interest to those concerned with the problems of industrial growth in general as well as to specialists on modern China.
The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920
Author: Richard GriffithsPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708322913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This is the first book to examine in a systematic way the entrepreneurial society of the Welsh Valleys. Until now, almost everything written about the society created by the Welsh coal industry has been about the workers and the unions, and there has been a significant gap, which needed to be filled if a rounded picture of life in the south Wales valleys during the coal boom was to be achieved. The book looks at the various sources of wealth in the area - coal owning, railway building, possession of land in crucial areas, contracting, building, property development, shopkeeping - and at the various origins from which the first-generation entrepreneurs came. It then examines closely the networks of power and influence that built up among the second-generation entrepreneurs in the close and claustrophobic middle-class society of the Porth-Pontypridd area. Its method is to take one extended family central to that society, together with its vast network of friends and collaborators, and to examine in great detail, from original sources, the often hair-raising business methods of these people, as well as their conflicts of interest at times of industrial unrest. At the same time, the changes in Valleys life are mirrored in the history of this group: the original 'rags-to-riches' stories of so many of the first generation; the self-sufficient confidence of so many of the second generation, for whom the coal boom seemed bound to last for ever; and the gradual move, thereafter, out of the coal industry and down to the towns on the coast, just in time to avoid the decline of the industry.
Japan's Industrialization in the World Economy:1859-1899
Author: Shinya SugiyamaPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1780939388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An analysis of Japan's industrialization in an international, historical and economic perspective, from the time that her ports were first opened to foreign trade. First published in 1988, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
Steam Power and Sea Power
Author: Steven GrayPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137576421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource – coal – and its distribution around the world. In doing so, it shows that the ‘coal question’ was central to imperial defence and the protection of trade, requiring the creation of infrastructures that spanned the globe. This infrastructure required careful management, and the processes involved show the development of bureaucracy and the reliance on the ‘contractor state’ to ensure this was both robust and able to allow swift mobilisation in war. The requirement to stop regularly at foreign stations also brought men of the Royal navy into contact with local coal heavers, as well as indigenous populations and landscapes. These encounters and their dissemination are crucial to our understanding of imperial relationships and imaginations at the height of the imperial age.
Author: David Egan