Business in the Age of Reason

by R.P.T. Davenport-Hines, Jonathan Liebenau

Overview

First Published in 1987. Representing a range of eighteenth-century research, these articles clarify or reorientate the historical origins of many of the chief themes of more recent business history. They include the areas of The Harburgh Company from 1716 to 1723; institutional experimentation in the London-Maryland Trade; banking in London in the 1700s; the pottery trade before 1780; the Birmingham Economy; Boulton and Wedgwood; financing the French navy; and directions of conduct in a merchant’s counting house.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415761192
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/10/2014
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

R.P.T. Davenport-Hines, Jonathan Liebenau

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Harburgh Company and its Lottery 1716–23, A.J.G. Cummings; Chapter 2 Sheffeild V. Starke: Institutional Experimentation in the London–Maryland Trade c. 1696–1706, Jacob M. Price; Chapter 3 Deposit Banking in London, 1700–90, Frank T. Melton; Chapter 4 The Business of Middleman in the English Pottery Trade Before 1780, Lorna Weatherill; Chapter 5 The Trading and Service Sectors of the Birmingham Economy 1750–1800, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 6 Matthew Boulton and Josiah Wedgwood, Apostles of Fashion, Eric Robinson; Chapter 7 Financing the French Navy in the Seven Years War: Beaujon, Goossens Et Compagnie in 1759, J.F. Bosher; Chapter 8 Directions for the Conduct of a Merchant’s Counting House, 1766, Jacob M. Price;