Chapter 1 Introduction: companies and states -- part Part I Sovereign companies -- chapter 2 Democratic despot: the East India Company, 1783-1858 -- chapter 3 Reluctant sovereign: the Bank of England, 1797-1875 -- part Part II Joint-stock banks -- chapter 4 -- chapter 5 Shifting gears: the rise of deposit banking, 1844-80 -- chapter 6 -- part Part III Railways -- chapter 7 Early railways and the machinery of joint-stock politics The mechanization o f joint-stock politics -- chapter 8 Railway republics and bureaucratic visions, 1860-75 -- chapter 9 Railways against democracy, 1875-1914 -- chapter 10 Conclusion: going public
Summary
This book takes a new approach to the rise of large scale companies in Victorian England, including the Bank of England and East India Company, locating their origins in social and political practice
Analysis
Corporaciones Inglaterra Historia Siglo XIX
Sociedades anónimas Inglaterra Historia Siglo XIX
Política industrial Inglaterra Historia Siglo XIX
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-289) and index
