Brewing Industry in England, 1700-1830
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- Author(s) Mathias, Peter
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1959
- Pages 596pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Taxation inc customs, excise, stamp duties, etc: imposition & impact
- Name Finance of production & trade
- Name Competition, collusion, monopoly & cartels inc competition policy & regulation
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Reprinted 1993. A seminal economic history of the English brewing industry, written ahead of the existence of case study histories. Structured in three parts, viz: Part 1] 'Production and trade': 'Beer, ale and Brewing'; 'Porter brewing and the brewery'; 'The technical innovations'; 'Distribution and the London market'; 'Distant markets - the British Isles'; 'Distant markets - exports' including naval brewhouses; Part 2] 'The problems of enterprise and finance': 'Competition and co-operation'; 'Finance and the entrepreneur' x 2; 'The excise system and the brewing industry'; Part 3] 'Raw materials': 'Barley and malt'; 'The trade in grain'; 'The brewer and the markers'; 'The hop industry'; 'The hop markets'. Extensive appendices [pp537-58] cover annual output of London breweries; number of common brewers and their annual production; distribution of malt production; prices of London beer and of malt; hop production; financial data re Whitbread, Barclay Perkins, Truman Hanbury Buxton.