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Preindustrial businesses: the time of the merchant -- The many paths to industrialization -- British and German businesses during industrialization -- Big and small businesses in industrializing America -- Japanese and Chinese businesses during industrialization -- American, British, and German...
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This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose … Japan, China, and Britain, and four short book reviews on recent academic works published in Japanese and English. The four … a district of Nagano Prefecture (central Japan) from the 1870s to the 1900s and the subsequent shift from firewood to …
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A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.
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From firewood to coal : deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in modern Japan / S. Sugiyama … and Izumi Yamada -- The government railways and the procurement of railway sleepers in prewar Japan / Asuka Yamaguchi …
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Since the Industrial Revolution, the economy of the UK has transformed from that of an industrial manufacturing giant to a service economy and a central hub for the financial sector. Energy and energy services derived from fossil fuels have played a key role as drivers behind this structural...
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To what extent has the British economy declined compared to its competitors and what are the underlying reasons for this decline? Nicholas Crafts, one of the world's foremost economic historians, tackles these questions in a major new account of Britain's long-run economic performance. He argues...
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