Questions concerning the relationships and boundaries between 'private' business and 'public' government are of great and perennial concern to economists, economic and business historians, political scientists and historians.Conceiving Companies discusses the birth and development of joint-stock companies in 19th century England, an area of great importance to the history of this subject. Alborn takes a new approach to the rise of large scale companies in Victorian England, including the Bank of England and East India Company and Victorian railways, locating their origins in political and social practice. He offers a new perspective on an issue of great significance, not only for historians, but for political scientists and economists.
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Readers interested in the complexities of Victorian culture should read Timothy L. Alborn's Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England...[it] brilliantly illuminates the subtle ways that Victorian men and women negotiated various ambitions....
–Mary Poovey, New York University, for Victorian Studies
–Mary Poovey, New York University, for Victorian Studies
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Since the early twentieth century, the joint-stock company and the state have stood together as exemplars of modern bureaucratic institutions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bank of England, Board of Trade, North Western, Old Corruption, Great Western, National Provincial, Adam Smith, Lombard Street, City of Glasgow, James Mill, Bank Charter Act, John Stuart Mill, Reform Act, Overend Gurney, Walter Bagehot, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Boer War, Great Northern, Peel's Act, First World War, Great Eastern, India Bill, Institute of Bankers, Young India, Bullion Committee New!
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Since the early twentieth century, the joint-stock company and the state have stood together as exemplars of modern bureaucratic institutions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bank of England, Board of Trade, North Western, Old Corruption, Great Western, National Provincial, Adam Smith, Lombard Street, City of Glasgow, James Mill, Bank Charter Act, John Stuart Mill, Reform Act, Overend Gurney, Walter Bagehot, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Boer War, Great Northern, Peel's Act, First World War, Great Eastern, India Bill, Institute of Bankers, Young India, Bullion Committee New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Lombard Street by Walter Bagehot on 12 pages
- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on 6 pages
- Adam Smith: Critical Assessments I and II (Critical Assessments of Leading Economists) by John Cunningham Wood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Trade Unionism (Themes and issues in modern sociology) by J.A. Banks in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Adam Smith: Critical Assessments (Critical Assessments of Leading Economists) by John Cunningham Wood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- George Eliot and the British Empire (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Nancy Henry in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cities of Ideas Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800T2000: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 : Essays in Honour of David Reeder (Historical Urban Studies) by Richard Rodger on page 21, and page 40
- Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Mark Curthoys on page 169, and Back Matter
- The Character of Credit (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories) by Margot C. Finn in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Victorian Archives) by Mary Poovey in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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