Nobility And Business In History

Author : Silvia A. Conca Messina,Takeshi Abe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000858624

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Nobility and Business in History by Silvia A. Conca Messina,Takeshi Abe Pdf

This book reconsiders the role of nobility as influential economic players and provides new insights into the business activities of noblemen in Europe and Asia during the nineteenth century thus offering up opportunities for comparison in an age of economic expansion and globalisation. What was the contribution of the nobility to the economy? Can we consider noblemen to have been endowed with an entrepreneurial spirit? Research shows that far from being passive, throughout the century the European nobility were widely involved in business, carried on innovations, refined management strategies, and diversified their investments from agriculture to transport, industry and finance. Both in Europe and Asia businesses were embedded in social networks and personal relationships. In modern Japan after the Meiji Restoration - the unique case in Asia where a Western-style nobility was created - business, trust, personal connections and aristocratic marriages were intertwined and Japanese noblemen, especially the richer ones, acted as promoters of industrialisation, even though their role was certainly limited in time and space. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of economics, management, political science, sociology, public management and history. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Business History.

Author : Jonathan Dewald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 052142528X

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The European Nobility, 1400-1800 by Jonathan Dewald Pdf

An authoritative and accessible survey of the European nobility over four centuries.

Author : I.Ford,O. Stevens,W.H. McEwen
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : History
ISBN : 9785871289716

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History of Northeast Indiana LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb Counties by I.Ford,O. Stevens,W.H. McEwen Pdf

Author : Kayla Morgan
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1604537582

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Barnes & Noble by Kayla Morgan Pdf

Examines the lives and achievements of bookselling legends Charles Barnes and G. Clifford Noble.

Author : Peter Novick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107268296

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That Noble Dream by Peter Novick Pdf

The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Eugene Genovese, That Noble Dream is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history - how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles.

Author : Miriam Beard
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Business
ISBN : UOM:39015035087074

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A History of the Business Man by Miriam Beard Pdf

Author : David Hein
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725219502

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Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century by David Hein Pdf

Hein skillfully provides regional, religious, and historical contexts for Powell's life and furnishes penetrating insights into the man and the entire Episcopal establishment of this era. [The author] resourcefully combines secondary scholarship, personal conversations and communications, and conventional primary documents to capture Powell's personality, career, and relationships.... Anyone with a serious interest in American religious history will find this compelling biography to be both informative and thought provoking. -- Samuel C. Shepherd Jr., Journal of Southern History Hein's wide knowledge of the sociocultural forces at work in the mid-twentieth century, and especially the forces that generated the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, have enabled him to illuminate an entire period of Episcopal Church history through the life and work of one man. . . . Hein's gracious style, judicious insights, and especially his striking ability to penetrate the subtleties of southern religion in brief and trenchant observations make this book a pleasure to read. -- Susan J. White, Anglican and Episcopal History [A] painstaking, thoughtful biography. . . . To this story Hein ... brings balance, sensitivity, and exhaustive research. As 'the last bishop of the old church,' Noble Powell will be remembered longer than many of his predecessors. -- James Bready, Baltimore Sun [This] biography . . . is meticulously researched, full of primary source material and rich documentation. [It] is fun to read for anyone with an interest in American Protestant history. -- David E. Sumner, Journal of American History

Author : Jay M. Smith
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nobility
ISBN : 0271058676

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The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century by Jay M. Smith Pdf

In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France's past. The contributors to this volume incorporate the important lessons of Chaussinand-Nogaret's revisionism but also reexamine the assumptions on which that revisionism was based.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1613 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625584458

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Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch Pdf

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but also about the times in which they lived.

Author : Beth Pickenpaugh Kolowski
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781483639116

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The McKee Family History of Noble County, Ohio by Beth Pickenpaugh Kolowski Pdf

David McKee is known as the progenitor of the McKee family of Noble County, Ohio; however, with our current lifestyles and social terms, Martha, David's wife, may well be included in this status. David died rather suddenly in 1815, leaving Martha to raise and oversee their family as they continued to live in the wilderness. David and Martha were together for twenty-eight years. They had seven sons and two daughters, who went on to prosper in the local community. Several McKee descendants continue to live in Noble County today. They too follow the same family values that David and Martha instilled in their sons and daughters. They were a pioneer settler family, who were of the front line of defense against the native Indians as trouble took place.

Author : K. A Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136604638

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Business History by K. A Tucker Pdf

This selection of readings demonstrates the use of both descriptive analysis and quantitative methods in the study of business records. The emphasis, however, is on the role of various quantitative approaches. Part I contains articles that consider a number of questions about the methods to be used and the aims of business history research. How is the subject to be defined? What types of analysis are most useful in research? In what ways can the findings of any research he used? Part II provides a number of examples of business history writing that demonstrate the results of a quantitative approach using both Primary and secondary source material. Some of the papers concentrate on the growth and performance of firms from various sectors of the economy. Some consider features of industrial structure. Others concentrate on techniques of marketing, personnel management and the assessment of profitability. Part III focuses on the techniques of manage meat that have been used to motivate or control the development of business activity. The studies include an analysis of the role of accounting data and other types of information, aids to forecasting, market analysis and the problems of risk and uncertainty in business decision making within various contexts. The editor has not only provided an introduction to the reprinted articles but he has also included, in Part IV, several special appendices useful for future research in business history. There is a section on allowing for changes in the unit of account. Another appendix deals with the merits and limitations of financial ratio analysis. An extensive bibliography is also provided. This authoritative text was first published in 1977.

Author : Anne Duggan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 085115882X

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Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe by Anne Duggan Pdf

The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility. CHOICE Articles on the origins and nature of "nobility", its relationship with the late Roman world, its acquisition and exercise of power, its association with military obligation, and its transformation into a more or less willing instrument of royal government. Embracing regions as diverse as England(before and after the Norman Conquest), Italy, the Iberian peninsula, France, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Romano-German empire, it ranges over the whole medieval period from the fifth to the early sixteenth century. Contributors: STUART AIRLIE, MARTIN AURELL, T. N. BISSON, PAUL FOURACRE, PIOTR GORECKI, MARTIN H. JONES, STEINAR IMSEN, REGINE LE JAN, JANET N. NELSON, TIMOTHY A REUTER, JANE ROBERTS, MARIA JOAO VIOLANTE BRANCO, JENNIFER C. WARD

Author : Amanda Porterfield,Darren Grem,John Corrigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190694593

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The Business Turn in American Religious History by Amanda Porterfield,Darren Grem,John Corrigan Pdf

Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity and ongoing transformation of religion in the United States. This volume offers a wide ranging exploration of the business aspects of American religious organizations. The authors analyze the financing, production, marketing, and distribution of religious goods and services and the role of wealth and economic organization in sustaining and even shaping worship, charity, philanthropy, institutional growth, and missionary work. Treating religion and business holistically, their essays show that American religious life has always been informed by business practices. Laying the groundwork for further investigation, the authors show how American business has functioned as a domain for achieving religious goals. Indeed they find that religion has historically been more powerful when interwoven with business. Chapters on Mormon enterprise, Jewish philanthropy, Hindu gurus, Native American casinos, and the wedding of business wealth to conservative Catholic social teaching demonstrate the range of new studies stimulated by the business turn in American religious history. Other chapters show how evangelicals joined neo-liberal economic practice and right-wing politics to religious fundamentalism to consolidate wealth and power, and how they developed marketing campaigns and organizational strategies that transformed the American religious landscape. Included are essays exposing the moral compromises religious organizations have made to succeed as centers of wealth and influence, and the religious beliefs that rationalize and justify these compromises. Still others examine the application of business practices as a means of sustaining religious institutions and expanding their reach, and look at controversies over business practices within religious organizations, and the adjustments such organizations have made in response. Together, the essays collected here offer new ways of conceptualizing the interdependence of religion and business in the United States, establishing multiple paths for further study of their intertwined historical development.

Author : Betty Turner
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595374786

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The Noble Legacy by Betty Turner Pdf

The incredible story behind the founder of Noble & Noble and cofounder of Barnes & Noble comes to life in this compelling biography of G. Clifford Noble. From his humble beginnings as a poor country boy to the co-owner of the most prestigious bookstore chain in the country, The Noble Legacy celebrates the life of a true American icon. Already a budding entrepreneur at age twelve, Noble grew up in Massachusetts in the aftermath of the Civil War. Dedicated to his religious faith and driven to succeed, he graduated from Harvard with distinction and moved to New York City in the fall of 1886. His first job as a clerk at a small wholesale and retail bookstore ignited his passion for bookselling. Noble's amazing business sense propelled him to continued success, culminating in the establishment of two premier book companies, Barnes & Noble and Noble & Noble. Noble's granddaughter, Betty Noble Turner, pens a touching tribute to her grandfather and artfully captures his legacy. She also offers a historical dissertation on the origin and challenges of Noble's two companies, as well as a loving life story about the man himself.

Author : Jonathan F. Vance
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774842310

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Death So Noble by Jonathan F. Vance Pdf

This book examines Canada's collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. It is a cultural history, considering art, music, and literature. Thematically organized into such subjects as the symbolism of the soldier, the implications of war memory for Canadian nationalism, and the idea of a just war, the book draws on military records, memoirs, war memorials, newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs, and films. It takes an unorthodox view of the Canadian war experience as a cultural and philosophical force rather than as a political and military event.