Finance of Canal Building in Eighteenth Century England
Details:
- Author(s) Ward, John R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1974
- Pages 224pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Investors & investor behaviour
- Name Finance of production & trade
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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:
Seminal account to c1815 of the finance of canal building with chapters on: 'Finance of river improvement' in pre canal era; 'Finance of canal building'; 'Geographical location of investors'; 'Organisation of canal finance'; 'Motives of investors'; 'Landowners and canals'; 'Canal finance and English economic development'. Appendices include 'Dividend payments by canal companies'; 'Bank finance of inland navigation' listing noticed cases of loans/overdrafts provided by commercial banks, before 1782 and 1782-1815. Generally includes much on individual canals