A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I: Four Paths to an Industrialized World

Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Preface Acknowledgements PART 1: THE BEGINNINGS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY 1. Introduction 2. Commerce and Trade in Early Civilization PART 2: ENTREPRENEURIAL COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN 3. Foundations of Commerce and Industry in Britain 4. Early Industrialization in England and Wales, 1760 - 1814 5. Global Leadership in Commerce and Industry, 1815 - 1914 PART 3: MANAGED COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN GERMANy 6. Foundations of German Commerce and Industry 7. German Business in the Pre-Modern Age, 1350-1800 8. Commerce and Industry in a United Germany, 1871 - 1914 PART 4: NETWORKED COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN JAPAN 9. Foundations of Japanese Commerce and Industry 10. Commerce in the Kamakura and Ashikaga Shogunates 11. Tokugawa Isolation, Commerce and Industry, 1603-1868 PART 5: COMPETITIVE COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE US 12. Commerce and Trade in Colonial America: 1609 to 1789 13. Post-Revolutionary War Commerce and Trade 14. Beginnings of an Industrial Nation, 1865 1920 About the Author References Index