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Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain
Liam Byrne
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Description for Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain
Paperback. The inspiring stories of ten great British entrepreneurs from the Elizabethan age to the present - how their genius made Britain great and shaped the global marketplace. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century onwards owed as much to the vision and creative energies of traders, merchants, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by empire-building military men. Dragons tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England's economy via trade with the New World, Liam Byrne traces a golden line of British entrepreneurial genius through men such as Thomas Pitt, saviour of the East India Company; financier Nathan Rothschild, creator of the ... Read more
Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century onwards owed as much to the vision and creative energies of traders, merchants, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by empire-building military men. Dragons tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England's economy via trade with the New World, Liam Byrne traces a golden line of British entrepreneurial genius through men such as Thomas Pitt, saviour of the East India Company; financier Nathan Rothschild, creator of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781857496
SKU
V9781781857496
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Liam Byrne
Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP is a former Cabinet minister, writer and reformer. A technology entrepreneur before entering politics, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Business School.
Reviews for Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain
'Written with infectious enthusiasm, Dragons brings to new perspectives on Britain's entrepreneurs. Economic history needs such a fresh and original approach' Sir Roderick Floud, co-editor, Cambridge Economic History. 'Liam Byrne's compelling history recounts Britain's past as a pointer to what must be Britain's future' Phil Collins, The Times. '[A] whistle-stop account of some of Britain's greatest entrepreneurs and deal-makers ... ... Read more