Business Life and Public Policy
Essays in Honour of D. C. Coleman

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Piscatorial politics in the early Parliaments of Elizabeth I G. R. Elton
2. Marriage as business: opinions on the rise in aristocratic bridal portions in early modern England R. B. Outhwaite
3. Age and accumulation in the London business community, 1665–1720 Peter Earle
4. The use and abuse of credit in eighteenth-century England Julian Hoppit
5. Convicts, commerce and sovereignty: the forces behind the early settlement of Australia C. H. Wilson
6. 'Gentleman and Players' revisited: the gentlemanly ideal, the business ideal and the professional ideal in English literary culture Neil McKendrick
7. The City, entrepreneurship and insurance: two pioneers in invisible exports - the Phoenix Fire Office and the Royal of Liverpool, 1800–90 Clive Trebilcock
8. 'At the head of all the new professions': the engineer in Victorian society W. J. Reader
9. Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht and the businessman in literature J. M. Winter
10. Lost opportunities: British business and businessmen during the First World War B. W. E. Alford
11. Ideology or pragmatism? the nationalization of coal, 1916–46 Barry Supple
Bibliography of D. C. Coleman's published works
Index.

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