1st Edition
Conceiving Companies Joint Stock Politics in Victorian England
By Timothy L. Alborn
Copyright 1998
320 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Companies and States; Part I Sovereign Companies; Chapter 2 Democratic Despot; Chapter 3 Reluctant Sovereign; Part II Joint-Stock Banks; Chapter 4 Representatives of the People; Chapter 5 Shifting Gears; Chapter 6 Doing Enormous Things; Part III Railways; Chapter 7 Early Railways and the Machinery of Joint-Stock Politics; Chapter 8 Railway Republics and Bureaucratic Visions, 1860–75; Chapter 9 Railways Against Democracy, 1875–1914; Chapter 10 Conclusion;
Biography
Timothy L. Alborn is Associate Professor of History and Social Studies at Harvard University. He has published articles on economic language and culture, and on the history of science, in journals including Victorian Studies, Science in Context, and History of Political Economy.
