Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-ix

List of contributors

pp x-x

Part I - Images and interpretations

pp 1-2

1 - Comparative business history

pp 3-26

2 - Historians and businessmen

pp 27-41

3 - Businessmen and their motives

pp 42-51

4 - La révolution manquée

pp 52-68

Part II - England and the Low Countries in pre-industrial times

pp 69-70

5 - Bruges as a trading centre in the early modern period

pp 71-88

6 - English re-exports and the Dutch staplemarket in the eighteenth century

pp 89-115

7 - ‘Little London’: British merchants in Rotterdam during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

pp 116-134

8 - Prejudice and policy: Sir George Downing as parliamentary entrepreneur

pp 135-150

9 - The lawyer as businessman in eighteenth-century England

pp 151-168

Part III - Enterprise, finance and politics in the modern world

pp 169-170

10 - The Bank of Rome and commercial credit, 1880–1914

pp 171-185

11 - The scientific brewer: founders and successors during the rise of the modern brewing industry

pp 186-198

12 - Large firms in Belgium, 1892–1974: an analysis of their structure and growth

pp 199-211

13 - ‘No bloody revolutions but for obstinate reactions’? British coalowners in their context, 1919–20

pp 212-236

14 - French oil policy, 1917–30: the interaction between state and private interests

pp 237-262

15 - Reflections on the Dutch economic interests in the East Indies

pp 263-277

Bibliography of Charles Wilson's published works

pp 278-280

Index

pp 281-290