Susan E. Stuart,Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840: Cabinetmakers and International Merchants: A Furniture and Business History, 2 vols. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K., and Easthampton, Mass.: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. Vol. 1: 448 pp., 367 color pls., 228 b/w ills.; vol. 2: 415 pp., 290 color pls., 105 b/w ills., gloss., 5 appendixes, bibliog., index. £125, $295.

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-213
Author(s):  
Martin Levy
Keyword(s):  
Business History

Restructuring Canadian Business History: A Review EssayNORTH AMERICAN PATTERNS OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: THE CONTINENTAL CONTEXT. W.T. Easter-brook. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xxviii, 272 pp.THE CANADIAN FUR TRADE IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE. Arthur J. Ray. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xviii, 283 pp.TIMOTHY EATON AND THE RISE OF HIS DEPARTMENT STORE. Joy L. Santink. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xii, 319 pp.WORKING IN STEEL: THE EARLY YEARS IN CANADA, 1883-1935. Craig Heron. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988. 223 pp.THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PACIFIC SALMON CANNING INDUSTRY: A GROWN MANS GAME. Ed. and Intro. Dianne Newell. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1989. xvii, 303 pp.THE COMMERCIAL FISHERY OF THE CANADIAN GREAT LAKES. A.B. McCullough. Ottawa: Environment Canada/ Canadian Parks Service, 1989. 153 pp.IN WHOSE INTEREST? QUEBEC’S CAISSES POPULAIRES 1900 1945. Ronald Rudin. Montreal/Kingston:McGilTQueen’s University Press, 1990. xvii, 185 pp.CO-OPERATIVE ORGANIZATIONS AND CANADIAN SOCIETY: POPULAR INSTITUTIONS AND THE DILEMMAS OF CHANGE. Ed. Murray E. Fulton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xiv, 345 pp.

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Graham D. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Salmon ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Business History ◽  
Commercial Fishery ◽  
Environment Canada ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Canning Industry

Un nouveau classique sur le XVe siècle : L'essor et le déclin de la banque DES MÉDICIS

1965 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Renouard
Keyword(s):  
Business History

M. Raymond de Roover publie, dans les Harvard Studies in Business History, le premier des ouvrages que cette célèbre collection ait encore consacré à une entreprise médiévale . Cet exceptionnel accueil manifeste déjà, autant que l'importance de la banque Médicis et la notoriété de l'auteur, la qualité de l'ouvrage. En fait, M. R. de Roover, qui s'est attaché depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans à retracer, avec les connaissances du technicien et la science de l'historien, la préhistoire des grandes affaires modernes, donne avec cet ouvrage consacré à la plus brillante et la plus célèbre des entreprises de la Renaissance italienne le livre de sa maturité, qui fera date dans l'historiographie du XVe siècle.

INFORMING HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT: TRADITIONS, PHILOSOPHIES, AND OPPORTUNITIES

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee D. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Business History ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
Historical Thought ◽  
The Way

Historical research in accounting and management, hitherto largely neglected as a field of inquiry by many management and accounting researchers, has experienced a resurgence of interest and activity in research conferences and journals over the past decade. The potential lessons of the past for contemporary issues have been rediscovered, but the way forward is littered with antiquarian narratives, methodologically naive analyses, ideologically driven interpretation and ignorance of the traditions, schools and philosophy of the craft by accounting and management researchers as well as traditional and critical historians themselves. This paper offers an introduction to contributions made to the philosophies and methods of history by significant historians in the past, a review of some of the influential schools of historical thought, insights into philosophies of historical knowledge and explanation and a brief introduction to oral and business history. On this basis the case is made for the philosophically and methodologically informed approach to the investigation of our past heritage in accounting and management

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Business History ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
New Firms ◽  
Green Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Cost

This chapter lays out the principal aims of the book and its contribution. It shows that business drove unprecedented wealth creation over the last two hundred years but the cost was unprecedented environmental pollution resulting in new geological era known as the Anthropocene Age. Already in the nineteenth century there was resistance which mostly took the form of elite conservation movements. Overlooked has been the advent of green entrepreneurs who sought to create new firms to facilitate sustainability. Today there is much discussion about green entrepreneurship, but these figures predate today’s green entrepreneurs by a century. The book breaks new ground in business history by looking at these many small and marginal entrepreneurial figures, who were often highly unconventional. The book will explore what has motivated green entrepreneurs in each generation, how they build businesses, and whether they achieved their goals.

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