Industrial Finance, 1830-1914

Taylor & Francis

Industrial Finance, 1830-1914The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry\nAuthor(s): P.L. Cottrell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138879720, 978-1138879720\nSynopsis\nThe nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change was, inevitably, the development of new types of finance adapted to the radically new environment. \n\nAn appreciation of the history of these developments makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of the growth and development of the British economy in one of its most dramatic phases.\n\nPhilip Cottrell has written an impressively documented full-scale survey of this crucial period, discussing finance in the context of sweeping reforms of company law, unprecedented technological change and economic expansion, and the institutional effects of all of these. He is primarily concerned with E.