Details

Subject(s)

• Corporations—England—History—19th century [Browse]
• Stock companies—England—History—19th century [Browse]
• Industrial policy—England—History—19th century [Browse]

Series

Routledge explorations in economic history. [More in this series]

Summary note

This book takes a new approach to the rise of large scale companies in Victorian England, including the Bank of England and East India Company, locating their origins in social and political practice.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-289) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: companies and states; Democratic despot: the East India Company, 1783 1858; Reluctant sovereign: the Bank of England, 1797 1875; ~Representatives of the people~: the politics of joint-stock banking, 1826 44; Shifting gears: the rise of deposit banking, 1844 80; ~Doing enormous things~: national banks, 1880 1914; Early railways and the machinery of joint-stock politics; Railway republics and bureaucratic visions, 1860 75; Railways against democracy, 1875 1914; Conclusion: going public; Notes
• BibliographyIndex

ISBN

• 1-134-67799-5
• 1-280-31894-5
• 0-203-45092-2
• 0-203-26551-3

OCLC

51977349

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203450925

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