Coal Mining on a Yorkshire Estate. Land ownership and personal capitalism, 1850-1914
Details:
- Author(s) Cross, David S
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 2015
- Publisher Sheffield Hallam University
- Place Published Sheffield
Topics:
- Name Family & personal capitalism
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Library:
- Name Sheffield Hallam University Library
- City Sheffield
- County South Yorkshire
- Country England
- Postcode S1 1WB
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Notes:
Deals with the development of the family's coal and iron ore extraction businesses from a low level in the 1860s, placing the family in the context of the landed classes; dealing with the choice of direct management or leasing; their management and financing of extraction, in particular marketing, transport, accounting, etc; the characteristics of personal capitalism that they displayed; etc