Companies that changed the world
By: Jonathan Mantle.
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781847246141; 9781847242419
Subjects: Stock companies -- History; Corporations -- History; Businessmen -- History
Description: This book tells the fascinating story of 50 joint stock companies, or companies based on a model, that have exerted a critical influence on the social and economic history of the past 400 years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 206) and index.