A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I: Four Paths to an Industrialized World

ISBN-13: 9781137503251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 270 str.

David E. McNabb

Opis

With the business landscape constantly in flux, researchers and analysts look to historical trends to better predict the future of modern business. A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social, and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in the four industrialized nations of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan to produce the institution we now know as the business enterprise. This ambitious book offers a multidisciplinary view of the birth and evolution of commerce in these four nations, from the Kamakura Shogunate in 12th century Japan to Europe's global leadership in the 1920s. It offers insight on the events that have shaped-and continue to shape-national character, and provides academics, researchers, and students with an overview of commerce and industry that will further their understanding of the future of business and its implications.

Spis treści

Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Preface Acknowledgements PART 1: THE BEGINNINGS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY 1. Introduction 2. Commerce and Trade in Early Civilization PART 2: ENTREPRENEURIAL COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN 3. Foundations of Commerce and Industry in Britain 4. Early Industrialization in England and Wales, 1760 - 1814 5. Global Leadership in Commerce and Industry, 1815 - 1914 PART 3: MANAGED COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN GERMANy 6. Foundations of German Commerce and Industry 7. German Business in the Pre-Modern Age, 1350-1800 8. Commerce and Industry in a United Germany, 1871 - 1914 PART 4: NETWORKED COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN JAPAN 9. Foundations of Japanese Commerce and Industry 10. Commerce in the Kamakura and Ashikaga Shogunates 11. Tokugawa Isolation, Commerce and Industry, 1603-1868 PART 5: COMPETITIVE COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE US 12. Commerce and Trade in Colonial America: 1609 to 1789 13. Post-Revolutionary War Commerce and Trade 14. Beginnings of an Industrial Nation, 1865 1920 About the Author References Index

O autorze

David E. McNabb is Professor Emeritus at the School of Business, Pacific Lutheran University, USA.