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This collection of reported British shareholder meetings originally published between 1800 and 1920 provides scholars and students new insight into the development of big businesses in the world today. Although such meetings comprised only one of many facets of companies’ intersections with their publics during the nineteenth century, they regularly provide a rich insight into each industry. This collection offers a breadth of examples, including utilities, land companies, and theatres as well as mining, insurance, banking, and transport, to allow readers to gain a sense of the protean nature of incorporation during the long nineteenth century. Following a general introduction, the book is divided into four sections: Doing the Business (on day-to-day financial operations), Politics (on corporate activities than intersected with British political and imperial concerns), Failure (on the communication and reception of financial ruin), and Mergers and Acquisitions (on shareholders’ responses to proposed mergers). Short introductions to each document provides the necessary information about each company and its constituents. This title will be of great interest to students of History, Business, and Finance.
Timothy Alborn is Professor of History at Lehman College and the City University of New York Graduate Center.
AcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionPart 1. Doing Business1. Drury Lane Theatre (1811) Morning Post, 31 October 18112. Norwich Union Fire and Annuity Office (1818)London Times, 24 July 1818; Morning Post, 29 July 18183. Welsh Iron and Coal Company (1826) London Times, 28 August 18264. National Provincial Bank (1834) Morning Chronicle, 9 May 18345. Eastern Counties Railway (1849) London Standard, 1 March 1849; Essex Standard, 11 May 18496. Guinness and Company, Ltd. (1887) Freeman’s Journal, 16 August 18877. Great Western Railway (1891) Supplement to the Railway Times, 14 February 18918. Liverpool Union Bank (1891) Bankers’ Magazine, March 1891.9. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company (1896) London Standard, 29 August 189610. Casualty Insurance Company (1906) Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor, 24 March 1906Part 2. Political Companies11. Bank of England (1797-98) London Times, 3, 24 and 31 March, 23 June, and 18 November 1797; and 7 February 1798; also London Chronicle, 26 March 1797; and Star and Evening Advertiser, 16 December 179712. Imperial Brazilian Mining Company (1841) Anti-Slavery Reporter, 2 June 184113. New Zealand Company (1846) London Times, 30 May 184614. East India Company (1857)"East-India House," Allen’s Indian Mail, 27 December 185715. British South Africa Company (1898) Morning Post, 22 April 1898Part 3. Mergers and Acquisitions 16. London and North Western Railway (1846) Herapath’s Journal and Railway Magazine, 8 August 184617. Albert Life Assurance Company and Medical Invalid Life Assurance Society (1860) London Daily News, 2 October 186018. Alliance and Dublin Consumers’ Gas Company (1866) Freeman’s Journal, 2 October 186619. London & County Bank and London & Westminster Bank (1909) Bankers’, Insurance Managers’, and Agents’ Magazine, September 1909Part 4. Bubbles and Failures20. United Chilian Company; Chilian Mining Company (1826) London Times, 18 April and 7 November 182621. London, Chatham and Dover Railway (1866) London Times, 14 August 1866, 1 September and 29 September, 186622. City of Glasgow Bank (1875) Aberdeen Journal, 23 October 187823. Great Britain Mutual Life Assurance Society (1881) Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor, 8 and 15 January 1881; 7 October 1882Bibliography