Description
First Published in 1986. This volume includes a collection of seven essays which are biographical in treatment, examining trends or incidents in the careers of individual businessmen intended to illustrate the general themes of speculation and patriotism in the period 1880–1924.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 ‘A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public’: Harry Marks and the Financial News 1884–1916, Dilwyn Porter; Chapter 2 Hooley and the Bovril Company, John Armstrong; Chapter 3 Edgar Vincent, Viscount D'Abernon, and the Eastern Investment Company in London, Constantinople and Johannesburg, R.P.T. Davenport-Hines, Jean-Jacques Van Helten; Chapter 4 Sir Frederic Philipson Stow: The Unknown Diamond Magnate, Rob Turrell; Chapter 5 Financiers and The British State: The Case of Sir Ernest Cassel, Pat Thane; Chapter 6 Sir Allan Smith, The Industrial Group and the Politics of Unemployment 1919–1924, Terence Rodgers; Chapter 7 Two Autobiographical Fragments, cHUGO Hirst;
