Business, banking, and urban history
Subtitle: essays in honour of S.G. Checkland
By: edited by Anthony Slaven and Derek H. Aldcroft ; foreword by Sir Alec K. Cairncross.
Contributors: Slaven, Anthony.; Aldcroft, Derek Howard.; Checkland, S. G.
Publisher: J. Donald; Exclusive distribution in the United States of America and Canada by Humanities Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Edinburgh; Atlantic Highlands, NJ, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Checkland, S. G.; Corporations -- Great Britain -- History.; Business enterprises -- Great Britain -- History.; Banks and banking -- Great Britain -- History.; Cities and towns -- Great Britain -- History.; Urbanization -- Great Britain -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Halbeath Colliery and Saltworks, 1785-1791 / Peter L. Payne; title: Management and shipbuilding, 1890-1938 / Anthony Slaven; title: Costs and contracts / R.H. Campbell; title: Lord Beaverbrook and the supply of aircraft, 1940-1941 / A.J. Robertson; title: Banking and industrialisation in Britain in the nineteenth century / Rondo Cameron; title: The development of joint-stock banking in Scotland, 1810-1845 / C.W. Munn; title: London, Paris, and silver, 1848-1867 / P.L. Cottrell; title: The social costs of mortality in the Victorian city / John R. Kellett; title: Urban economic morphology in nineteenth-century Glasgow / W. Forsyth; title: Urban growth and municipal government / Tom Hart; title: Urban transport problems in historical perspective / Derek H. Aldcroft; title: Publications by S.G. Checkland / compiled by Olive Checkland.