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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Business History"”.
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The General Steam Navigation Company c.1850-1913: a business history
This thesis concerns the history of the General Steam Navigation Company from 1850to 1913, immediately prior to the First World War. Established as a joint-stock company in 1824, this London-based shipowner operated a range of steamship liner services on coastal and near-Continent routes and, from …
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Toward a business history of the string quartet: How the string quartet became a career path in the United States
At their origins, American string quartets achieved a high standard of performance through full-time commitments made financially possible through individual patrons. As the American music scene matured through the twentieth century, the string quartet profession integrated performance and …
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First Ladies of Film: The Not so Silent Women of Early American Cinema
… of sound in 1927, Hollywood’s shifting business history caused a virtual disappearance of these opportunities.</p>
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Digital Money and Monetary History
… This involves considering the monetary history of selected civilisations over the last 5,000 years and to see if time and space make their unique lessons irrelevant to the twenty-first century. Money is often viewed from a theoretical viewpoint in economics, politics or sociology. …
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Canvassed and Delivered: Direct Selling at Keystone View Company, 1898-1910
… of the stereoscopic photograph industry: the business and sales practices employed by American stereograph publishers at the dawn of the twentieth century, as exemplified by Keystone View Company. Stereographic sales practices are an essential element in understanding stereoscopy’s ubiquity …
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Script, Empire, and Business: A Global History of Japanese Script Reform, 1920-1945
… perspectives and sheds new light on the history of the relationships among script, business, and the Japanese empire. Specifically, it examines the campaigns of the Kanamoji Association (Kanamoji-kai) in not only Japan but also East and Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America from …
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Embroidery, business enterprise and philanthropic ventures in Nineteenth Century Britain
… and relating this to our understanding of gender history. The embroidery ventures stimulated the commercial side of embroidery in the late nineteenth century, mobilising commercial activity through numerous agencies, department stores, depots and charitable institutions. Embroidery took on the …
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The development of four hotel companies in the UK, 1979-2004
The evolution of big business in manufacturing and some service industries, together with the role played in this by merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has been thoroughly researched and is well documented. However, despite' the increasing economic and social importance of the UK hotel industry, …
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The Royal Mint Refinery, a Business Adapting to Change, 1919-1968
The thesis charts the business history of the Royal Mint Refinery (RMR), a bullion<br/>refinery operated by the London merchant bank, N M Rothschild & Sons, between<br/>1852 and 1968. Through analysis of business records key events that changed the trading direction of the operation are identified: …
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In the Shadow of Steel: Leetonia, Ohio and Independent Iron Manufacturers in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys, 1845-1920
… presents new perspectives into American Business history and offers an opportunity to redirect historians’ understanding of the iron and steel industry in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania during the “Age of Steel.”</p>
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The London gasworks : a technical, commercial and labour history to 1914
This thesis is a history of the gas industry down to 1914 with special reference to London. Part One deals with the industry's origins and its technical and business history and traces the development from the discovery of coal gas manufacture at the end of the seventeenth century to its first …
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Psychoanalysis, management and labour in the British workplace, 1942-c.1970
… into a social science with commercial appeal for business consumers. However, I argue that psy-experts did not succeed in psychologising the workplace. Conventional ways of thinking about labour remained resilient, and psy-experts found they had to adapt their theories when collaborating with …
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Family Firm Sustainability: An Ethnographic Study of Change and Adaptation in the Traditional Batik Industry in Lasem, Indonesia
… batik firms demonstrate the ability to sustain a business through generations, particularly those owned and managed by ethnic Chinese families. Surprisingly, quite a few have survived past the third generation, while previous research in a Western context proved only fourteen percent of family …
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Will Globalization Play in Peoria? Class, Race, and Nation in the Global Economy, 1948-2000
… communities. Incorporating social, labor, and business history, this study contributes to the literature on globalization and the decline of the labor movement by connecting myriad sites such as the shop floor, local communities, federal policies, and transnational trade and labor-relations …
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The art of dealing: commercial galleries in Paris towards the end of the nineteenth century.
… been neglected. The starting point was the business history of the Galerie Georges Petit questioning how this gallery grew into the largest in Paris and maintained its prime position for over thirty years. In 1879 Georges Petit, inhelited a smaller gallery from his father, which dealt mostly …
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Beyond a cup of tea: Trade relationships between colonial Australia and China, 1860-1880
… to complete transactions. This thesis provides history with an interpretation of the records relating to the China-Australia trade. It engages the correspondence and financial records of of key companies like Jardine Matheson & Co. of England, Augustine Heard & Co. and Russell & Co. of the …
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Beyond a cup of tea: Trade relationships between colonial Australia and China, 1860-1880
… to complete transactions. This thesis provides history with an interpretation of the records relating to the China-Australia trade. It engages the correspondence and financial records of of key companies like Jardine Matheson & Co. of England, Augustine Heard & Co. and Russell & Co. of the …
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From Lancashire to Bombay: Commercial Networks, Technology Diffusion, and Business Strategy in the Bombay Textile Industry
… 27 elite interviews with prominent Mumbai-based businessmen and their families, a technological and cultural dependence by manufacturing elites upon the commercial agent is identified. The emplacement of colonial business norms and particularly the use of informal networks, in turn bolstered by a …
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The Castle of Good Hope : an examination of controversies and conflicting perceptions : a case study in public history
Public history as a distinct discipline emerged in America in the 1970s and by the 1980s a Committee and Council had been established aimed at promoting historical studies, broadening historical knowledge among the general public and opening up opportunities for historians to work in the private …
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