This book was first published in 1967. This volume contains a number of essays looking at Scottish business history, its sources and archives. Section two explores domestic and enterprise organsation with examples of lead-mining, joint stock and he law, the Glasglow savings bank and the east coast herring fishing. Section three expands Scottish Enterprise overseas from 1707 to the nineteeth century.
Introduction, Peter L. Payne
PART ONE: SOURCES
1. National archive sources for business history, John Imrie
2. Historical business records in private hands surveyed by the national register of archives (Scotland), A.M. Broom & A. Anderson
3. Historical business records surveyed by the Colquhoun lecturer in business history and the business archives council of Scotland, Peter L. Payne
4. A bibliography of Scottish business history, W. H. Marwick
PART TWO: DOMESTIC ENTERPRISE AND ORGANISATION
5. Lead-mining in Scotland, 1640-1850, T.C. Smout
6. The law and the joint-stock company in Scotland, R.H. Campbell
7. The Savings Bank of Glasgow, 1836-1914, Peter L. Payne
8. Organisation and growth in the East Coast Herring Fishing, 1800-1885, Malcolm Gray
9. Earnings and productivity in the Scottish coal-mining industry during the nineteenth century: the Dixon Enterprises, A. Slaven
10. Entrepreneurship in the Scottish Heavy Industries, 1870-1900, T.J. Byres
PART THREE: SCOTTISH ENTERPRISES OVERSEAS
11. The rise of Glasgow in the Chesapeake Tobacco Trade, 1707-1775, Jacob M. Price
12. Scottish enterprise in Australia, 1798-1879, D. Macmillan
13. British shippingin the nineteenth century: a study of the Ben Line Papers, T. E. Milne
14. Scottish investment and Enterprise in Texas, W. G. Kerr
15. Scottish investment in American Railways: the case of the City of Glasgow Bank, 1856-1881, R.E. Tyson
Biography
Peter L. Payne-Colquhoun Lecturer in Business History, University of Glasgow
