David Oldroyd
Gebundenes Buch

Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution

Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700-1780

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At the beginning of the eighteenth century the landed estate represented the largest and most clearly defined type of business organisation in existence in pre-industrial England. Given the need for capital, wayleave rights and a ready supply of coal, iron and other raw materials it is unsurprising that most historians tend to place Britain's formative industrial development on such estates where all these elements were available. Yet despite this consensus, relatively little attention has been paid to the management and accountancy practices of these estates, which have the potential to revea...