Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- CAPITAL AND CREDIT IN BRITISH OVERSEAS TRADE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Problem of Debt Viewed from the Chesapeake -- 3. Capitalization of Merchant Firms -- 4. Borrowing on Bond -- 5. Borrowing from Banks -- 6. Commercial Credit -- 7. The...

Frontmatter -- Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- TABLES -- Introduction -- 1. The Evolution of the Steel Steamship -- 2. Fluctuations in Shipbuilding Output -- 3. Regional Shipbuilding -- 4. The Firms -- 5. Industrial Organization -- 6. The Development of the Shipyard -- 7....

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. AN OUTLINE OF FRENCH AND BRITISH ECONOMIC GROWTH SINCE 1851 -- CHAPTER 2. RESOURCES -- CHAPTER 3. CAPITAL -- CHAPTER 4. POPULATION -- CHAPTER 5. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH -- CHAPTER 6. ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- CHAPTER 7....

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE PILOT MYSTIQUE -- 2 EARLY PILOT ORGANIZATIONS -- 3 THE IMPACT OF THE DEPRESSION -- 4 CREATING A NATIONAL UNION -- 5 INTERNAL PROBLEMS OF LEADERSHIP AND POLICY -- 6 THE CENTURY STRIKE -- 7 THE...

Until 1860 John Ruskin's writings were primarily about art and architecture; but his belief that good art can flourish only in a society that is sound and healthy led him inevitably to a preoccupation with social and economic problems, the dominant concern of his later writings. James Clark...

Frontmatter -- Preface / Imlah, Albert H. -- Contents -- Tables -- Appendix tables -- Charts -- I. Distinctive elements in the Pax Britannica -- II. Real values in British foreign trade, 1796-1853 -- III. British balance of payments and export of capital, 1816-1913 -- IV. The terms of trade of...