This volume contains ten essays, nine of which may be familiar to readers of Business History. Spanning four decades of study, they examine aspects of industry and business from the early modern period to the present and demonstrate the quality of Coleman's contribution to business and economic history. Having as their principal theme the nature and consequences of Britain's Industrial Revolution, they are concerned with approaches, concepts and definitions, and the businessmen who served as agents of change.
The book takes its title from the first essay, an extended version of Coleman's Creighton Trust Lecture for 1989. Ranging over the romantic origins and early use of …
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