British Shareholder Meetings in the Long Nineteenth Century

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-01211-7 (ISBN)

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This collection of reported British shareholder meetings originally published between 1800 and 1920 provides researchers new insight into the development of businesses in the world today. This collection offers a breadth of examples to allow readers to gain a sense of the protean nature of incorporation during the long nineteenth century.

This collection of reported British shareholder meetings originally published between 1800 and 1920 provides scholars and students new insight into the development of big businesses in the world today. Although such meetings comprised only one of many facets of companies’ intersections with their publics during the nineteenth century, they regularly provide a rich insight into each industry. This collection offers a breadth of examples, including utilities, land companies, and theatres as well as mining, insurance, banking, and transport, to allow readers to gain a sense of the protean nature of incorporation during the long nineteenth century.

Following a general introduction, the book is divided into four sections: Doing the Business (on day-to-day financial operations), Politics (on corporate activities than intersected with British political and imperial concerns), Failure (on the communication and reception of financial ruin), and Mergers and Acquisitions (on shareholders’ responses to proposed mergers). Short introductions to each document provides the necessary information about each company and its constituents. This title will be of great interest to students of History, Business, and Finance.

Timothy Alborn is Professor of History at Lehman College and the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Acknowledgements

General Introduction

Part 1. Doing Business

1. Drury Lane Theatre (1811)
Morning Post, 31 October 1811

2. Norwich Union Fire and Annuity Office (1818)
London Times, 24 July 1818; Morning Post, 29 July 1818

3. Welsh Iron and Coal Company (1826)
London Times, 28 August 1826

4. National Provincial Bank (1834)
Morning Chronicle, 9 May 1834

5. Eastern Counties Railway (1849)
London Standard, 1 March 1849; Essex Standard, 11 May 1849

6. Guinness and Company, Ltd. (1887)
Freeman’s Journal, 16 August 1887

7. Great Western Railway (1891)
Supplement to the Railway Times, 14 February 1891

8. Liverpool Union Bank (1891)
Bankers’ Magazine, March 1891.

9. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company (1896)
London Standard, 29 August 1896

10. Casualty Insurance Company (1906)
Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor, 24 March 1906

Part 2. Political Companies

11. Bank of England (1797-98)
London Times, 3, 24 and 31 March, 23 June, and 18 November 1797; and 7 February 1798; also London Chronicle, 26 March 1797; and Star and Evening Advertiser, 16 December 1797

12. Imperial Brazilian Mining Company (1841)
Anti-Slavery Reporter, 2 June 1841

13. New Zealand Company (1846)
London Times, 30 May 1846

14. East India Company (1857)
"East-India House," Allen’s Indian Mail, 27 December 1857

15. British South Africa Company (1898)
Morning Post, 22 April 1898

Part 3. Mergers and Acquisitions

16. London and North Western Railway (1846)
Herapath’s Journal and Railway Magazine, 8 August 1846

17. Albert Life Assurance Company and Medical Invalid Life Assurance Society (1860)
London Daily News, 2 October 1860

18. Alliance and Dublin Consumers’ Gas Company (1866)
Freeman’s Journal, 2 October 1866

19. London & County Bank and London & Westminster Bank (1909)
Bankers’, Insurance Managers’, and Agents’ Magazine, September 1909

Part 4. Bubbles and Failures

20. United Chilian Company; Chilian Mining Company (1826)
London Times, 18 April and 7 November 1826

21. London, Chatham and Dover Railway (1866)
London Times, 14 August 1866, 1 September and 29 September, 1866

22. City of Glasgow Bank (1875)
Aberdeen Journal, 23 October 1878

23. Great Britain Mutual Life Assurance Society (1881)
Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor, 8 and 15 January 1881; 7 October 1882

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	21.12.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	780 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-032-01211-0 / 1032012110
ISBN-13	978-1-032-01211-7 / 9781032012117
Zustand	Neuware