Merchant Enterprise in Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I

ISBN: 9780521893626 出版年：1992 页码：357 Stanley Chapman Cambridge University Press

List of figures List of tables Preface Abbreviations used in the footnotes Introduction: approaches and concepts Part I. The Setting: 1. The eighteenth-century structure of merchant enterprise 2. The consequences of the Industrial Revolution and the French wars Part II. New Streams of Enterprise: 3. Merchants in the Atlantic trade 4. The agency houses: trade to India and the far East 5. The international houses: the foreign contribution to British mercantile enterprise 6. The home trade houses Part III. Response to Instant Communication: 7. Problems of restructuring mercantile enterprise 8. British-based investment groups before 1914 9. Imperialism and British trade Part IV. Conclusions: 10. Performance of british mercantile enterprise Manuscript sources Index of firms and people Index of plates Index of subjects.