Education for the Mercantile Counting House

Critical and Constructive Essays by Nine British Writers, 1716-1794
Herausgeber: Sheldahl, Terry K.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1989, surveys higher education in preparation for business careers, particularly the fledgling profession of accounting. Examining the origins of English schooling for merchants, it brings to light articles and writers from the eighteenth century who proposed a liberal education for business - a key part of the development of the history of accounting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 822g
• ISBN-13: 9780367518738
• ISBN-10: 0367518732
• Artikelnr.: 69984274

Autorenporträt

Terry K. Sheldahl

Inhaltsangabe

1. General Introduction: the Development of English Schooling
from Anglo-Saxon Times Through 1800 2. Pioneer Education Writer
Edward Watts 3. General Textbook Author
Martin Clare 4. William Webster
Writing Master and Accountant 5. Malachy Postlethwayt
and a Possible Alternate
or Second
Author for The Accomplish'd Merchant 6. Malachy Postlethwayt: Entries from His Dictionary 7. The Rev. William Thom: Anonymous Scots Polemicist Against the Universities 8. Glasgow Schoolmaster
William Gordon 9. The Literary
Mathematical and Commercial School of the Brothers Clarke: Mathematician Henry and Baptist Cleric William Augustus 10. 'Well-Bred' British and American Scholar William Milns