Author: Alborn, Timothy L
Title: Conceiving companies: joint-stock politics in Victorian England / Timothy L. Alborn
Description: London; New York: Routledge 2014. Paperback Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 297 pages. Summary: This book takes a new approach to the rise of large scale companies in Victorian England. including the Bank of England and East India Company. locating their origins in social and political practice. Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: companies and states; Democratic despot: the East India Company. 1783 1858; Reluctant sovereign: the Bank of England. 1797 1875; ~Representatives of the people~: the politics of joint-stock banking. 1826 44; Shifting gears: the rise of deposit banking. 1844 80; ~Doing enormous things~: national banks. 1880 1914; Early railways and the machinery of joint-stock politics; Railway republics and bureaucratic visions. 1860 75; Railways against democracy. 1875 1914; Conclusion: going public; Notes. BibliographyIndex. Subjects: Corporations England History 19th century. Stock companies England History 19th century. Industrial policy England History 19th century. Corporations Great Britain History 19th century. Corporations. Industrial policy. Stock companies. Genre: History.

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