1st Edition
Finance and Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain Volume I: Public Finance and Company Promotion
Edited By George Robb
Copyright 2026
388 Pages
by
Routledge
565 Pages
by
Routledge
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This four-volume primary source collection examines the links between the financial world and British culture in the nineteenth-century. The twenty-first-century financial world had its origins in nineteenth-century Britain with industrialism, imperial expansion, and a robust securities market. New developments in limited liability and financial journalism democratized investment, rendering... Read more
Volume I: Public Finance and Company Promotion; Volume II: The World of the Stock Exchange; Volume III: Shareholders and the Culture of Investment; Volume IV: Financial Crises and Financial Fraud
Biography
George Robb is a Professor of British history at William Paterson University of New Jersey. For more than thirty years he has researched and written about British and American financial history.
