Merchant Enterprise in Britain
Subtitle: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521893626
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Economic History; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; Commerce; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics-Commerce; Great Britain--Commerce--History--18th centur; Great Britain--Commerce--History--18th century
First sentence: There is a large literature on British merchants and their diverse enterprises in the eighteenth century, and much academic expertise has been invested in calculating and evaluating the growing volume and value of trade in the period.