Studies in Scottish business history
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Studies in Scottish business history
(Routledge library editions, . Economic history ; 039 . Business history)
Routledge, 2006
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Riprint. Originally published: London : F. Cass, 1967
Includes index
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: set ISBN 9780415286190
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Available as a 159-volume set, as thematic mini-sets or as single volumes, Routledge Library Editions: Economic History reprints some of the most important works on economic history published in the last century.
For further information on this collection please email info.research@routledge.co.uk.
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: subset ISBN 9780415377966
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First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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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.
Table of Contents
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
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