Author: Michie, R.C., editor:
Title: Commercial and Financial Services
Description: Oxford, Blackwell, (1994). orig.cloth. 25x17cm, (70), 436 pp, Series: The Industrial Revolutions, 11.. Textual graphs & tables.. Slight page-edge soil, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contains 20 papers concerning: Commerce; Communications; Credit & Capital. Includes: K. Berrill "International Trade & the Rate of Economic Growth"; I.B. Kravis "Trade as a Handmaiden of Growth: Similarities between the 19 th & 20th Centuries"; F. Crouzet "Toward an Export Economy: British Exports during the Industrial Revolution"; M. Palairet "Merchant Enterprise & the Development of the Plum-based Trades in Serbia, 1847 - 1911"; C.B. Schedvin "Staples & Regions of Pax Britannica"; N.H. Leff " Tropical Trade & Development in the 19th Century: The Brazilian Experience"; C.K. Harley "Late 19th-Century Transportation, Trade & Settlement"; J. Metzeer "Railroad Development & Market Integration: The Case of Tsarist Russia"; J.Hurd, II "Railways & the Expansion of Markets in India, 1861 - 1921"; D.C. North "Ocean Freight Rates & Economic Development, 1750 - 1913" ; F.J.A. Broeze "The Cost of Distance: Shipping & the Early Australian Economy, 1788 - 1850"; R.B. Duboff "The Telegraph & the Structure of Markets in the United States, 1845 - 1890"; J. Ahvenainen "Telegraphs, Trade & Policy: The Role of International Telegraphs in the Years 1870 - 1914"; A.J.H. Latham & L. Neal "The International Market in Rice & Wheat, 18 6 8 - 1914"; D.C. North "International Capital Movements in Historical Perspective"; C. Harvey & P.Taylor "Mineral Wealth & Economic Development: Foreign Direct Investment in Spain, 1851 - 1913"; R.T. Stillson "The Financing of Malayan Rubber, 1905 - 1923"; C.M. Hou "External Trade, Foreign Investment, & Domestic Development: The Chinese Experience, 1840 -

Keywords: Economic History, International Trade, Finance, Financial Services, Economics, Commerce, Communications, Credit, Capital