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  • British Shareholder Meetings in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Timothy Alborn ...
    This collection of reported British shareholder meetings originally published between 1800 and 1920 provides scholars and students new insight into the development of big businesses in the world today. Although such meetings comprised only one of many facets of companies’ intersections with their publics during the nineteenth century, they regularly provide a rich insight into each industry. This ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Misers

    British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700–1860

    by Timothy Alborn ...
    Series series Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850
    This volumeuses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving, spending, and investment.Misers surveys this class of people—as invented and interpreted in sermons, poems, novels, and plays; ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • All That Glittered

    Britain's Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush

    by Timothy Alborn ...
    During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world's supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation's emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 3

    by Timothy Alborn ...
    By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800–1914 Volume 2

    by Timothy Alborn, Sharon Ann Murphy ...
    By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 1

    by Timothy Alborn, Sharon Ann Murphy ...
    By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    by Ian P. H. Duffy ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Industrial Revolution
    This title, first published in 1985, examines the evolution of the laws relating to debt and credit during the industrial revolution. Since economic activity was so precarious during the industrial revolution it is important to explore the legal procedures designed to deal with its victims. This work examines two aspects of financial collapse during the industrial revolution: the legal and ... Read more

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  • Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

    by Walter Bagehot ...
    I venture to call this Essay 'Lombard Street,' and not the 'Money Market,' or any such phrase, because I wish to deal, and to show that I mean to deal, with concrete realities. A notion prevails that the Money Market is something so impalpable that it can only be spoken of in very abstract words, and that therefore books on it must always be exceedingly difficult. But I maintain that the Money ... Read more

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  • Law for Laymen - An Australian Book of Legal Advice and Information. Clear, Concise and Practical

    by C. H. Chomley ...
    This vintage book contains a handbook of Australian legal advice and information, first published in 1907. It was originally intended not for the lawyer but for the laymen, and contains an outline of the most important principles of the common laws relating to business and everyday life. "Law for Laymen" will be of utility to those with an interest in the history and development of Australian law, ... Read more

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  • Our Money and the State

    by Hartley Withers ...
    Our Money and the State is a classic work on public finances first published in 1917. ... Read more

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  • Accountability of Local Authorities in England and Wales, 1831-1935 Volume 2 (RLE Accounting)

    Edited by Hugh Coombs, J. Edwards ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Accounting
    These books make available material relating to the statutory regulations covering the degree of accountability required from local authorities during the period 1834-1936. The bulk of historical accounting research has focused on the development of financial accounting although in recent years the development of management accounting has attracted more interest. In both these areas, it has been ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Equitable Assurances

    The Story of Life Assurance in the Experience of The Equitable LIfe Assurance Society 1762-1962

    by Maurice Ogborn ...
    The original establishment of life assurance upon a sound basis was largely the achievement of The Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships (now known as The Equitable Life Assurance Society and still affectionately called the 'Old Equitable'), and of the men who served her.Old Equitable was the first life assurance society to grant long-term contracts for either a stated period ... Read more

    $42.99 USD