Chapter 9. History of Entrepreneurship: Britain, 1900–2000

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface.The Entrepreneur in History ix
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction. Global Enterprise and Industrial Performance: An Overview 1
7. Chapter 1. Entrepreneurs: From the Near Eastern Takeoff to the Roman Collapse 8
8. Chapter 2. Neo-Babylonian Entrepreneurs 40
9. Chapter 3. The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions 62
10. Chapter 4. Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in Medieval Europe 88
11. Chapter 5. Tawney’s Century, 1540–1640: The Roots of Modern Capitalist Entrepreneurship 107
12. Chapter 6. The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic 156
13. Chapter 7. Entrepreneurship and the Industrial Revolution in Britain 183
14. Chapter 8. Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1830–1900 211
15. Chapter 9. History of Entrepreneurship: Britain, 1900–2000 243
16. Chapter 10. History of Entrepreneurship 273
17. Chapter 11. Entrepreneurship in France 305
18. Chapter 12. Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum United States 331
19. Chapter 13. Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1865–1920 367
20. Chapter 14. Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1920–2000 401
21. Chapter 15. An Examination of the Supply of Financial Credit to Entrepreneurs in Colonial India 443
22. Chapter 16. Chinese Entrepreneurship since Its Late Imperial Period 469
23. Chapter 17. Entrepreneurship in Pre–World War II Japan: The Role and Logic of the Zaibatsu 501
24. Chapter 18. “Useful Knowledge” of Entrepreneurship: Some Implications of the History 527
25. Contributors 543
26. Index 545