This book was first published in 1967. This volume contains a number of essays looking at Scottish business history, its sources and archives. Section two explores domestic and enterprise organsation with examples of lead-mining, joint stock and he law, the Glasglow savings bank and the east coast herring fishing. Section three expands Scottish Enterprise overseas from 1707 to the nineteeth century.
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This book was first published in 1967. This volume contains a number of essays looking at Scottish business history, its sources and archives. Section two explores domestic and enterprise organsation with examples of lead-mining, joint stock and he law, the Glasglow savings bank and the east coast herring fishing. Section three expands Scottish Enterprise overseas from 1707 to the nineteeth century.
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Textual maps, graphs & tables. Some rubbing, small tear to dustwrapper, VG., dustwrapper. 22x14cm, xviii, 435 pp. Contains 15 papers. Includes: A.M. Broom & A. Anderson "Historical Business Records in Private Hands Surveyed by the National Register of Archives (Scotland)"; W.H. Marwick "A Bibliography of Scottish Business History"; T.C. Smout "Lead-Mining in Scotland, 1650-1850"; R.H. Campbell " The Law & the Joint-Stock Company in Scotland"; P.L. Payne "The Savings Bank of Glasgow, 1836-1914"; M. Gray "Organisation & Growth in the East Coast Herring Fishing, 1800-1885"; A. Slaven "Earnings & Productivity in the Scottish Coal-mining Industry during the 19th Century: The Dixon Enterprises"; T.J. Byres "Entrepreneurship in the Scottish Heavy Industries, 1870-1900"; J.M. Price "The Rise of Glasgow in the Chesapeake Tobacco Trade, 1707-1775"; D. Macmillan "Scottish Enterprise in Australia, 1798-1879"; T.E. Milne "British Shipping in the 19th Century: A Study of the Ben Line Papers"; W.G. Kerr "Scottish Investment & Enterprise in Texas"; R.E. Tyson "Scottish Investment in American Railways: The Case of the City of Glasgow Bank, 1856-1881", etc.