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Commerce and culture : nineteenth-century business elites /
"Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth century. This book brings together twelve original contributions by scholars in the United Kingd...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Publishing,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Modern economic and social history series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Commerce and Culture: A Critical Assessment of the Role of Cultural Factors in Commerce and Trade from c.1750 to the Early Twentieth Century / Robert Lee
- 2 From Wolverhampton to Calcutta: The Low Origins of Merchant Enterprise / Andrew Popp
- 3 The Australian Company: Operations and Finances / Michael Nix
- 4 Bridges to the East: European Merchants and Business Practices in India and China / Christof Dejung
- 5 'To save the commercial community of New York': Panicked Business Elites in 1837 / Jessica Lepler
- 6 The Entrepreneurial Activity of Dimitrios and Stephanos Manos in Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century / Ikaros Madouvalos
- 7 The Rise and Fall of Friedrich Wilhelm Keutgen, Bremen's Consul in New York, 1859--61 / Lars Maischak
- 8 The Role of the Business Elite in the Social, Economic and Cultural Life of the Russian Provincial City / Elena Apkarimova
- 9 The Commercial Culture of Spiritual Kinship amongst German Immigrant Merchants in London, c.1750--1830 / Margrit Schulte Beerbuhl
- 10 To Have and to Hold? Marital Connections and Family Relationships in Salem, Massachusetts, 1755--1810 / Lesley Doig
- 11 `A most terrific passage': Putting Faith into Atlantic Steam Navigation / Crosbie Smith.