Chronicles of British Business in Asia 1850-1960: A Bibliography of Printed Company Histories with Short Accounts of the Concerns - Hardcover

Carter, Dr Lionel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8173044708 ISBN 13: 9788173044700

Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2001

Synopsis

Chronicles of British Business in Asia, 1850-1960 provides descriptions of more than a hundred British firms which have had company histories' written about then activities in Asia. The years chosen cover the high noon' of the British empire as well as its subsequent decline and the firms are shown as having to come to terms with very different operating circumstances. The studies range from banks to shipping firms and agency houses, from a cotton-loom manufacturing company to rubber and tea plantation concerns as well as mining firms. There are remarkable examples of determined entrepreneurship in the face of almost unbelievable adverse fortune. The volume supplies full bibliographical records of all the available company histories'.

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About the Author

For more than ten years, Lionel Carter was a member of the team which produced the British Government's series of Documents on the Transfer of Power to India, 1942-47. From 1980 until 1999, Carter served as Secretary and Librarian of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8173044708
• ISBN 13: 9788173044700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228