Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of

This collection of original essays is a tribute to Charles Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. They have been written by friends, colleagues and former students to honour him on his seventieth birthday. Running through the essays is the theme of enterprise in history and especially in the two fields in which Charles Wilson has been pre-eminent: business history and the economic relations of England and the Netherlands. As is appropriate for an historian with such international interests, the essays cover a wide field. They include contributions from a number of distinguished economic historians in continental Europe and the USA, as well as essays by several well-known British historians on different aspects of enterprise, including the Industrial Revolution, in Britain. The volume thus presents a comprehensive set of studies of diverse examples of the forms, consequences and interpretations of economic enterprise in history. It will thus be of substantial interest not only to business historians but also to a broad range of economic historians.

Preface
List of contributors
Images and Interpretations
Comparative business history
Historians and businessmen
Businessmen and their motives
La rTvolution manquTe
England and the Low Countries in Pre-Industrial Times
Bruges as a trading centre in the early modern period
English re-exports and the dutch staplemarket in the eighteenth century
'Little London': British merchants in Rotterdam during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Prejudice and policy: Sir George Downing as parliamentary entrepreneur
The lawyer as businessman in eighteenth-century England
Enterprise, Finance and Politics in the Modern World
The Bank of Rome and commercial credit, 1880-1914
The scientific brewer: founders and successors during the rise of modern brewing industry
Large firms in Belgium, 1892-1974: an analysis of their structure and growth
'No bloody revolutions but for obstinate reactions'? British coalowners in their context, 1919-20
French oil policy, 1917-30: the interaction between state and private interests
Reflections on the Dutch economic interests in the East Indies
Bibliography of Charles Wilson's published works
Index
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