Capital, Entrepreneurs and Profits

Richard Davenport-Hines, introduction by Theo Barker)

Introduction: Francis Hyde, Harvard, Liverpool and the First 30 Years of Business History, Business History, Provincial Aspects of the Financial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century, William Morris and the Marketing of Art, The Marketing of Ready Made Footwear in the Nineteenth Century: A Study of the Firm of C. & J. Clark, The Development of Municipal Trading in the Nineteenth Century, Labour Supply and Innovation 1800-1860: The Boot and Shoe Industry, Managing a Dollar-Sterling Exchange Account: Brown, Shipley and Company in the 1850s, London Financiers and Austria 1863-1875: The Anglo-Austrian Bank, French Investment in Russian Joint-Stock Companies, 1894-1914, The London Mining Exchange 1850-1900, Business Enterprise and the Growth of the Commercial Letterpress Printing Industry, 1850-1914, Railways and Price Discrimination: The Case of Agriculture 1880-1914, Joint-Stock Company Flotation in the Cycle, Motor-Vehicle and Related Industries 1882-1914, Joseph Whitworth and the Growth of Mass-Production Engineering, New Industries for Old? Some Investment Decisions of Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd., 1900-1914, The Machine Tool Industry in Britain to 1914, The American Impact on British Industry 1895-1914, Anatomy of the British Business Elite, 1860-1980