"Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, accountants, financial newspapers - were Victorian creations. So were the moral codes, the behavioural assumptions, the...

H.J. Habakkuk, a bibliography -- Introduction / F.M.L. Thompson -- English and French landowners, 1688-1789 / P.K. O'Brien and D. Heath -- A world elsewhere / J.R.T. Hughes -- The decline of the small landowner in England and Wales, 1660-1900 / J.V. Beckett -- Henry Hoare, banker, his family and...