A very interesting, well-argued, and well documented study of the rise of joint-stock enterprise that explores the political and cultural milieu within which legal reforms occurred.
NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES
A splendid addition to the Royal Historical Society's series 'Studies in History', which is providing a valuable outlet for some of the best new post-doctoral research in Britain. [...] ... Read moreAnyone reading it cannot fail to be struck by its quality. It should enhance considerably [the author's] reputation as one of the finest historians in the country.
ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW
Makes an important contribution to our understanding of why joint-stock enterprise became such an established element within Britain in the mid-nineteenth century.
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[A] well researched and well written book. EH.NET-Review
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Taylor breaks with earlier historiography [and] develops his own explanation of events by the bold concept of invading the nineteenth-century imagination. This is achieved with aplomb, through a wise and convincing blend of sources conventionally used by business historians, along with more novel material, notably cultural and literary sources, peppered with a dozen pertinent cartoons reproduced in these pages.
ENTERPRISE AND SOCIETY,
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