Entrepreneurial Families : Business, Marriage and Life in the Early Nineteenth Century

Name: Entrepreneurial Families:Business, Marriage and Life in the Early Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781315655352

doi:10.4324/9781315655352

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ABSTRACT

Entrepreneurship is increasingly being recognized as an important facet of economic history. Popp examines the Shaw family business to present a study of entrepreneurism that puts the family centre stage.

Entrepreneurial Families

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction: An Unlimited Partnership

chapter 1|13 pages

‘Did You Really Think Your Letter Would Prove Too Long?’: Epistolary Lives.

chapter 2|17 pages

John Shaw in Business

chapter 3|18 pages

John and Elizabeth in Love

chapter 4|18 pages

‘Our Present Adventure’: India And Beyond.

chapter 5|17 pages

‘To Work Hard for a Larger Family’: Managing Work and Family.

chapter 6|16 pages

‘The Whole Circle of Our Acquaintance’: Networks and Sociability.

chapter 7|16 pages

‘Happiness (In Earthly Things)’: Getting and Having.

chapter 8|6 pages

Conclusion: The Life They Made

chapter |8 pages

Epilogue: ‘One Hundred and Fifty Years of Achievement’