Studies of the British Industrial Revolution and of the Victorian period of economic and social development have until very recently concentrated on British industries and industrial regions, while commerce and finance, and particularly that of London, have been substantially neglected. This has distorted our view of the process of change, since financial services and much trade continued to be centred on the metropolis, and the south-east region never lost its position at the top of the national league of wealth.
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There is a large literature on British merchants and their diverse enterprises in the eighteenth century, and much academic expertise has been invested in calculating and evaluating the growing volume and value of trade in the period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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There is a large literature on British merchants and their diverse enterprises in the eighteenth century, and much academic expertise has been invested in calculating and evaluating the growing volume and value of trade in the period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ltr bks, home trade houses, agency house system, piece goods trade, managing agency system, accepting houses, agency houses, textile printers, mercantile enterprise, indigo factories, merchant enterprise, banque protestante, cotton trade, jute mills, country manufacturers, foreign houses, calico printers, investment groups, merchant houses, acceptance credits, international houses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bank of England, Far East, South Africa, Ralli Bros, Guildhall Lib, Jardine Skinner, James Finlay, French Wars, City of London, Latin America, World War, Baring Bros, South America, Wallace Bros, Kleinwort Information Books, North America, Buenos Aires, New Orleans, North of England, United States, East India Company, Stock Exchange, West Indies, West Riding New!
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- The Rise of Merchant Banking by Stanley Chapman on 8 pages
- Merchants of Grain by Dan Morgan on 5 pages
- Cotton Trade of Great Britain (Library of Industrial Classics) by J. A. Mann on 4 pages
- The Great Barnato by Stanley Jackson on page 248, page 261, and page 279
- A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain : Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics) by Daniel Defoe on page 44, and page 168
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- Business History around the World (Comparative Perspectives in Business History) by Franco Amatori on page 141, page 358, and page 369
- Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600 (The Royal Historical Society Bibliography: the History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas) by Andrew Porter on page 218, and page 315
- E. H. Carr and International Relations: A Duty to Lie (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) by Charles Jones on page 51, and Back Matter
- Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Cambridge Latin American Studies) by Eugene Ridings on page 35, and Back Matter
- The Atlantic (Seas in History) by Paul Butel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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