Business Life and Public Policy Book

Preface; 1. Piscatorial politics in the early Parliaments of Elizabeth I G. R. Elton; 2. Marriage as business: opinions on the rise in aristocratic bridal portions in early modern England R. B. Outhwaite; 3. Age and accumulation in the London business community, 1665–1720 Peter Earle; 4. The use and abuse of credit in eighteenth-century England Julian Hoppit; 5. Convicts, commerce and sovereignty: the forces behind the early settlement of Australia C. H. Wilson; 6. 'Gentleman and Players' revisited: the gentlemanly ideal, the business ideal and the professional ideal in English literary culture Neil McKendrick; 7. The City, entrepreneurship and insurance: two pioneers in invisible exports - the Phoenix Fire Office and the Royal of Liverpool, 1800–90 Clive Trebilcock; 8. 'At the head of all the new professions': the engineer in Victorian society W. J. Reader; 9. Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht and the businessman in literature J. M. Winter; 10. Lost opportunities: British business and businessmen during the First World War B. W. E. Alford; 11. Ideology or pragmatism? the nationalization of coal, 1916–46 Barry Supple; Bibliography of D. C. Coleman's published works; Index.