Commerce and Culture

Nineteenth-Century Business Elites
Herausgeber: Lee, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a collection of interrelated essays by international scholars working on the relationship between commerce and culture from c. 1750 to the early-twentieth century. Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth century, and these essays underline the centrality of this across a broad international setting. As such the volume provides an important addition to the available literature in this field and will attract a wide readership amongst business, cultural, maritime, economic, social and urban historians, as well as historical anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists whose research embraces a longer-term perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781138265707
• ISBN-10: 1138265705
• Artikelnr.: 57050713

Autorenporträt

Robert Lee is Chaddock Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's Preface
Robert Lee; Chapter 1 Commerce and Culture: A Critical Assessment of the Role of Cultural Factors in Commerce and Trade from c.1750 to the Early Twentieth Century
Robert Lee; Chapter 2 From Wolverhampton to Calcutta: The Low Origins of Merchant Enterprise
Andrew Popp; Chapter 3 The Australian Company: Operations and Finances
Michael Nix; Chapter 4 Bridges to the East: European Merchants and Business Practices in India and China
Christof Dejung; Chapter 5 'To save the commercial community of New York': Panicked Business Elites in 1837
Jessica Lepler; Chapter 6 The Entrepreneurial Activity of Dimitrios and Stephanos Manos in Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Ikaros Madouvalos; Chapter 7 The Rise and Fall of Friedrich Wilhelm Keutgen
Bremens Consul in New York
1859-61
Lars Maischak; Chapter 8 The Role of the Business Elite in the Social
Economic and Cultural Life of the Russian Provincial City
Elena Apkarimova; Chapter 9 The Commercial Culture of Spiritual Kinship amongst German Immigrant Merchants in London
c.1750-1830
Margrit Schulte Beerbühl; Chapter 10 To Have and to Hold? Marital Connections and Family Relationships in Salem
Massachusetts
1755-1810
Lesley Doig; Chapter 11 'A most terrific passage': Putting Faith into Atlantic Steam Navigation
Crosbie Smith;