1st Edition
Industrial Finance, 1830-1914 The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry
By P.L. Cottrell
Copyright 1980
320 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change was, inevitably, the development of new types of finance adapted to the radically new environment.
An appreciation of the history of these developments makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of the growth and development of the British economy in one... Read more
Preface ix
1 Financing the industrial revolution
I – institutional change 1
2 Financing the industrial revolution
II – textiles, coal and iron 19
3 The development of company law 1825–1914 39
4 Shares and shareholders of early limited companies 80
5 Cotton and iron: the provinces and the metropolis 1855–85 104
6 Private companies and public combines 1885–1914 162
7 Banks and the finance of industry 194
8 Internal and private sources of funds 248
Bibliography 274
Index to authors 285
Index to banks and firms 287
Subject index 290
Biography
P.L. Cottrell
