num_pages: 227
description: This book provides descriptions of more than a hundred British firms which have had 'company histories' written about their activities in Asia. The studies range from banks to shipping firms and agency houses. There are remarkable examples of determined entrepreneurship in the face of almost unbelievable adverse fortune. The volume supplies full bibliographical records of all the available 'company histories'.
language: English
title: Chronicles of British Business in Asia 1850-1960: A Bibliography of Printed Company Histories with Short Accounts of the Concerns
titlecomplete: Chronicles of British Business in Asia 1850-1960: A Bibliography of Printed Company Histories with Short Accounts of the Concerns
publisher: Manohar Pubns