Merchant Enterprise in Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I

by StanleyChapman (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $127.81

  Studies of the British Industrial Revolution and of the Victorian period of economic and social development have until very recently concentrated on British industries and industrial regions, while commerce and finance, and particularly that of London, have been substantially neglected. This has distorted our view of the process of change, since financial services and much trade continued to be centred on the metropolis, and the south-east region never lost its position at the top of the national league of wealth.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $36.54

  Looking at how British merchants responded to the opportunities of the Industrial Revolution and the growing British Empire, this book concludes that industrial entrepreneurs contributed little to merchant ventures, and that merchants evolved their own enterprise to meet changing opportunities.