Studies in the business history of Bristol

Industrial change and the economic life of Bristol since 1800 / Charles Harvey and Jon Press. - J. S. Fry & Sons : growth and decline in the chocolate industry, 1753-1918 / Stefanie Diaper. - The development of banking in the Bristol region 1750-1914 / Philip Ollerenshaw. - The growth of the pri...

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Veröffentlicht: Bristol Bristol Acad. Pr. 1988
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Zusammenfassung:Industrial change and the economic life of Bristol since 1800 / Charles Harvey and Jon Press. - J. S. Fry & Sons : growth and decline in the chocolate industry, 1753-1918 / Stefanie Diaper. - The development of banking in the Bristol region 1750-1914 / Philip Ollerenshaw. - The growth of the printing and packaging industry in Bristol 1800-1914 / Donald Bateman. - Locomotive building in Bristol in the age of steam 1837-1958 / Peter Davis, Charles Harvey and Jon Press. - Sir George White and the urban transport revolution in Bristol 1875-1916 / Charles Harvey and Jon Press. - Georges and brewing in Bristol / Geoffrey Channon. - Rearmament, war and the performance of the Bristol aeroplane company 1935-45 / Glyn Stone. - G. B. Britton and footwear manufacturing in Bristol and Kingswood 1870-1973 / Jon Press. - Old traditions, new departures : the later history of the Bristol & West Building Society / Charles Harvey.
Klappentext: Recent years have seen the coming of age of regional studies, historical and social scientific. The general result has been a deepening in our understanding of the processes of economic and social change. Studies in the Business History of Bristol is the outcome of increased scholarly concern with local variations in experience as well as general phenomena; in this case with a business community and industries which hitherto have been neglected. For whilst maritime and Georgian Bristol have received a good deal of attention from historians, much less is known about the very substantial expansion of the city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With one or two notable exceptions, there has been little research on the businessmen and enterprises whose activities have sustained the regional economy in more recent times. Charles Harvey and Jon Press survey the industrial and economic development of Bristol since 1800 in a wide?ranging introductory chapter which sets the scene for the more detailed studies which follow. Several of these concentrate on the affairs of leading Bristol enterprises, such as Frys, Georges, and Brittons, and examine the factors and personalities which made for their success. Other chapters cover entire industries over long periods, laying the foundations for a much needed economic history of the Bristol region. All the chapters are based upon extensive original research, and cover subjects which, despite their obvious importance, have been largely ignored until now. The text is enlivened through the inclusion of more than forty illustrations, many of which are published for the first time.
Beschreibung:XVI, 278 S
Ill., graph. Darst
ISBN:0951376209
0-9513762-0-9