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British Business History: A Review of Recent Books

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Francis E. Hyde
Francis E. Hyde*
Affiliation:
Chaddock Professor of Economics, The University of Liverpool
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Abstract

A distinguished British scholar and one of the Review's International Correspondents raises interesting questions concerning the writing of business and economic history.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1963 , pp. 240 - 250
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1963

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References

1 See the controversy in “Dedicatory Issue to Henrietta M. Larson,” Business History Review, vol. XXXVI (Spring, 1962)Google Scholar.

2 Payne, Peter L., “The Uses of Business History: A Contribution to the Discussion,” Business History, vol. V (December, 1962), pp. 12–21 Google Scholar.

3 Campbell, R. H., Carron Company (Edinburgh and London, Oliver and Boyd, 1961. Pp. xii + 346 Google Scholar. 30 s.).

4 Harris, J. R., The Copper King (Liverpool, The University Press, 1963. Pp. xii + 195 Google Scholar. 35 s.).

5 Flinn, M. W., Men of Iron: The Crowleys in the Early Iron Industry (Edinburgh, The University Press, 1962. Pp. xii + 270 Google Scholar. 42 s.).

6 Carr, J. C. and Taplin, W., A History of the British Steel Industry (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1962. Pp. xii + 632 Google Scholar. 63s.).

7 Edwards, H. R., Competition and Monopoly in the British Soap Industry (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1962. Pp. xii + 270 Google Scholar. 35 s.).

8 Liveing, Edward, A Century of Insurance: The Commercial Union Assurance Group, 1861–1961 (London, H. F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., 1961. Pp. xvi + 320 Google Scholar. 42 s.).

9 Ashton, T. S., Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution (Manchester, The University Press, 1924 Google Scholar; reprinted 2nd ed., 1951. Pp. xii + 266. 16s.).

10 Rostow, W. W., The Stages of Economic Growth (Cambridge, The University Press, 1960. Pp. xii + 179 Google Scholar. 12s. 6d.).

11 Habakkuk, H. J., American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, The University Press, 1962. Pp. x + 222 Google Scholar. 32 s. 6d.).

12 Burn, D. L., The Steel Industry, 1939–1959 (Cambridge, The University Press, 1961. Pp. xvi + 728 Google Scholar. 80 s.). This book is a sequel to the author's earlier book, The Economic History of Steel Making, 1867–1939.