Studies in Scottish Business History

Herausgeber: Payne, Peter L.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book was first published in 1967. This volume contains a number of essays looking at Scottish business history, its sources and archives. Section two explores domestic and enterprise organsation with examples of lead-mining, joint stock and he law, the Glasglow savings bank and the east coast herring fishing. Section three expands Scottish Enterprise overseas from 1707 to the nineteeth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781138865143
• ISBN-10: 1138865141
• Artikelnr.: 42835275

Autorenporträt

Peter L. Payne-Colquhoun Lecturer in Business History, University of Glasgow

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: SOURCES 1. National archive sources for business history
2. Historical business records in private hands surveyed by the national register of archives (Scotland)
3. Historical business records surveyed by the Colquhoun lecturer in business history and the business archives council of Scotland
4. A bibliography of Scottish business history
PART TWO: DOMESTIC ENTERPRISE AND ORGANISATION 5. Lead-mining in Scotland
1640-1850
6. The law and the joint-stock company in Scotland
7. The Savings Bank of Glasgow
1836-1914
8. Organisation and growth in the East Coast Herring Fishing
1800-1885
9. Earnings and productivity in the Scottish coal-mining industry during the nineteenth century: the Dixon Enterprises
10. Entrepreneurship in the Scottish Heavy Industries
1870-1900
PART THREE: SCOTTISH ENTERPRISES OVERSEAS 11. The rise of Glasgow in the Chesapeake Tobacco Trade
1707-1775
12. Scottish enterprise in Australia
1798-1879
13. British shipping in the nineteenth century: a study of the Ben Line Papers
14. Scottish investment and Enterprise in Texas
15. Scottish investment in American Railways: the case of the City of Glasgow Bank
1856-1881