Studies in Scottish Business HistoryPeter L. Payne This book was first published in 1967. This volume contains a number of essays looking at Scottish business history, its sources and archives. Section two explores domestic and enterprise organsation with examples of lead-mining, joint stock and he law, the Glasglow savings bank and the east coast herring fishing. Section three expands Scottish Enterprise overseas from 1707 to the nineteeth century. |
Contents
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Historical Business Records in Private Hands Surveyed by | 30 |
Historical Business Records Surveyed by the Colquhoun | 42 |
A Bibliography of Scottish Business History | 77 |
DOMESTIC ENTERPRISE AND ORGANISATION | 101 |
The Law and the JointStock Company in Scotland | 136 |
The Savings Bank of Glasgow 18361914 | 152 |
Organisation and Growth in the East Coast Herring Fish | 187 |
Earnings and Productivity in the Scottish Coalmining | 217 |
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