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Risk and Failure in English Business 1700-1800
Risk and Failure in English Business 17001800
Author: Julian Hoppit
This major study considers bankruptcy in eighteenth-century England. Typically, business enterprise in this period has been seen as a success story - where men like Boulton, Watt, Wedgwood and Arkwright helped to forge the Industrial Revolution. But this is a myth, for thousands of businesses failed, hounded by their creditors into bankruptcy an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521890878
ISBN-10: 052189087X
Publication Date: 4/11/2002
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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