Entrepreneurial Families:

Business, Marriage and Life in the Early Nineteenth Century

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Andrew Popp

Studies in Business History

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. This focus on the influence of social relationships marks a new direction in business history, one that provides a more nuanced picture of economic development in nineteenth-century Britain.

Readership

Entrepreneurship, Business History, Family Businesses, Social History and Nineteenth-Century Studies

Contents

1 An Unlimited Partnership: An Introduction
2 Sources and Methods
3 John Shaw in Business
4 Being in Love
5 Being in Business
6 Being Men and Women
7 Friends and Family
8 A World of Things
Conclusion

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