Enterprise and History
Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson

Table of Contents

Preface
List of contributors
Part I. Images and Interpretations:
1. Comparative business history Alfred D. Chandler Jr
2. Historians and businessmen D. C. Coleman
3. Businessmen and their motives W. J. Reader
4. La révolution manquée R. M. Hartwell
Part II. England and the Low Countries in Pre-Industrial Times:
5. Bruges as a trading centre in the early modern period J. A. van Houtte
6. English re-exports and the Dutch staplemarket in the eighteenth century David Ormrod
7. 'Little London': British merchants in Rotterdam during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries P. W. Klein
8. Prejudice and policy: Sir George Downing as parliamentary entrepreneur Henry Roseveare
9. The lawyer as businessman in eighteenth-century England Peter Mathias
Part III. Enterprise, Finance and Politics in the Modern World:
10. The Bank of Rome and commercial credit, 1880–1914 L. de Rosa
11. The scientific brewer: founders and successors during the rise of the modern brewing industry Kristof Glamann
12. Large firms in Belgium, 1892–1974: an analysis of their structure and growth Herman van der Wee
13. 'No bloody revolutions but for obstinate reactions'? British coalowners in their context, 1919–20 Barry Supple
14. French oil policy, 1917–30: the interaction between state and private interests R. W. Ferrier
15. Reflections on the Dutch economic interests in the East Indies H. Baudet
Bibliography of Charles Wilson's published works
Index.