Conceiving Companies. Joint stock politics in Victorian England
Details:
- Author(s) Alborn, Timothy L
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1998
- Pages 297pp
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Joint stock company & limited liability structures
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Considers the relationship and boundaries between business and government here through a study area of the development of joint stock companies - notably banks and railway companies - in the 19th century. Chapters include: 'Democratic despot - the East India Co, 1783-1858; 'Reluctant sovereign - the Bank of England, 1797-1875; 'The politics of joint stock banking, 1826-44'; 'Shifting gears - the rise of deposit banking, 1844-80'; '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'