Timothy L. Alborn

Conceiving Companies (eBook, ePUB)

Joint Stock Politics in Victorian England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes a new approach to the rise of large scale companies in Victorian England, including the Bank of England and East India Company, locating their origins in social and political practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134677986
• Artikelnr.: 47890267

Autorenporträt

Timothy L. Alborn is Associate Professor of History and Social Studies at Harvard University. He has published articles on economic language and culture, and on the history of science, in journals including Victorian Studies, Science in Context, and History of Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Companies and States
Part I Sovereign Companies
Chapter 2 Democratic Despot
Chapter 3 Reluctant Sovereign
Part II Joint-Stock Banks
Chapter 4 Representatives of the People
Chapter 5 Shifting Gears
Chapter 6 Doing Enormous Things
Part III Railways
Chapter 7 Early Railways and the Machinery of Joint-Stock Politics
Chapter 8 Railway Republics and Bureaucratic Visions, 1860-75
Chapter 9 Railways Against Democracy, 1875-1914
Chapter 10 Conclusion