Enterprise and History Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson Book

Preface; List of contributors; Part I. Images and Interpretations: 1. Comparative business history Alfred D. Chandler Jr; 2. Historians and businessmen D. C. Coleman; 3. Businessmen and their motives W. J. Reader; 4. La révolution manquée R. M. Hartwell; Part II. England and the Low Countries in Pre-Industrial Times: 5. Bruges as a trading centre in the early modern period J. A. van Houtte; 6. English re-exports and the Dutch staplemarket in the eighteenth century David Ormrod; 7. 'Little London': British merchants in Rotterdam during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries P. W. Klein; 8. Prejudice and policy: Sir George Downing as parliamentary entrepreneur Henry Roseveare; 9. The lawyer as businessman in eighteenth-century England Peter Mathias; Part III. Enterprise, Finance and Politics in the Modern World: 10. The Bank of Rome and commercial credit, 1880–1914 L. de Rosa; 11. The scientific brewer: founders and successors during the rise of the modern brewing industry Kristof Glamann; 12. Large firms in Belgium, 1892–1974: an analysis of their structure and growth Herman van der Wee; 13. 'No bloody revolutions but for obstinate reactions'? British coalowners in their context, 1919–20 Barry Supple; 14. French oil policy, 1917–30: the interaction between state and private interests R. W. Ferrier; 15. Reflections on the Dutch economic interests in the East Indies H. Baudet; Bibliography of Charles Wilson's published works; Index.