Gentlemen Capitalists
Author: Howard L. Malchow
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780804718073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Stanford University Press classic.
Author: Howard L. Malchow
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780804718073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Stanford University Press classic.
Author: Anthony Webster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-01-27
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1350182311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The period when the British were establishing political and commercial hegemony in Southeast Asia also saw the foundation of the present-day "Asian-tiger" economies. This book aims to show the importance of London capitalist interest, the vital role played by Indian capitalist and merchants in Southeast Asia and the importance of growing Chinese community as intermediaries between British and indigenous merchants. The author traces the steps leading to the consolidation of British interest including the acquisition of Penang, the results of a major war with European powers up to 1815, the growth of British and Indian industrial and commercial interest, the establishment of Singapore, the settlement of Anglo-Dutch relations, the expansion of British colonial administration and also "informal empire" in various Malay states, Sarawak and Siam and the conclusion of the Anglo-Burmese wars.
Author: Anthony Webster
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
Published: 1998-12-31
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The period when the British were establishing political and commercial hegemony in Southeast Asia also saw the foundation of the present-day 'Asian tiger' economies. Webster traces the steps leading to the consolidation of British interest.
Author: Philip Augar
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2008-12-04
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0141964146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A revolution took place in the City in the 80s and 90s. The cosy club of British merchant banking collapsed in a series of sell-outs, closures and scandals. This left the City dominated by US and European giants. Was this the inevitable result ofglobalization or did mismanagement play a part? This is the first book to look at how and why the British merchant banks and brokers sold out, and where that leaves us. Augar tells this fascinating story with pace and drama, taking us through the Thatcher years, the crash of 1987, Big Bang, and the aggressive invasion of the American banks. He looks at why the British banks failed to keep pace with the Americans, what this says about the way they were run, and what this means for the future.
Author: H. W. Brands
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0393340503
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An "insightful" (Publishers Weekly) history of the development of American capitalism and the men who made it great. Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury in 1907; Alexander Hamilton, who founded the first national bank, and Nicholas Biddle, under whose directorship it failed; Jay Cooke, who helped to finance the Union war effort through his then-innovative strategy of selling bonds to ordinary Americans; and Jay Gould, who tried to corner the market on gold in 1869 and as a result brought about Black Friday and fled for his life.
Author: Noam Maggor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-02-20
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0674973887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the United States. Brahmin Capitalism reveals the decisive role of established wealth in the transformation of the American economy in the decades after the Civil War, leading the way to the nationally integrated corporate capitalism of the twentieth century. Maggor’s provocative history of the Gilded Age explores how the moneyed elite in Boston—the quintessential East Coast establishment—leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing in New England and the abolition of slavery, these gentleman bankers traveled far and wide in search of new business opportunities and found them in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West. Their investments spawned new political and social conflict, in both the urbanizing East and the expanding West. In contests that had lasting implications for wealth, government, and inequality, financial power collided with more democratic visions of economic progress. Rather than being driven inexorably by technologies like the railroad and telegraph, the new capitalist geography was a grand and highly contentious undertaking, Maggor shows, one that proved pivotal for the rise of the United States as the world’s leading industrial nation.
Author: Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-09-27
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781333767327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from To Business Men, Capitalists, and All Seeking Investments Its enterprising efforts to bring the distant points of the Coast in communication with each other and with the At lantic States, were mainly due to the foresight and well directed labors of General Horace W. Carpentier, who was President of the Company till 1866, when a majority of the stock having passed into the hands of the Western Union Tel. The management changed hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: James O'Toole
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0062880268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An expert on ethical leadership analyzes the complicated history of business people who tried to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organizational practices—from British industrialist Robert Owen to American retailer John Cash Penney and jeans maker Levi Strauss to such modern-day entrepreneurs Anita Roddick and Tom Chappell. Today’s business leaders are increasingly pressured by citizens, consumers, and government officials to address urgent social and environmental issues. Although some corporate executives remain deaf to such calls, over the last two centuries, a handful of business leaders in America and Britain have attempted to create business organizations that were both profitable and socially responsible. In The Enlightened Capitalists, James O’Toole tells the largely forgotten stories of men and women who adopted forward-thinking business practices designed to serve the needs of their employees, customers, communities, and the natural environment. They wanted to prove that executives didn’t have to make trade-offs between profit and virtue. Combining a wealth of research and vivid storytelling, O’Toole brings life to historical figures like William Lever, the inventor of bar soap who created the most profitable company in Britain and used his money to greatly improve the lives of his workers and their families. Eventually, he lost control of the company to creditors who promptly terminated the enlightened practices he had initiated—the fate of many idealistic capitalists. As a new generation attempts to address social problems through enlightened organizational leadership, O’Toole explores a major question being posed today in Britain and America: Are virtuous corporate practices compatible with shareholder capitalism?