A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.

Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Preface Acknowledgements PART 1: THE BEGINNINGS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY 1. Introduction 2. Commerce and Trade in Early Civilization PART 2: ENTREPRENEURIAL COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN 3. Foundations of Commerce and Industry in Britain 4. Early Industrialization in England and Wales, 1760 - 1814 5. Global Leadership in Commerce and Industry, 1815 - 1914 PART 3: MANAGED COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN GERMANy 6. Foundations of German Commerce and Industry 7. German Business in the Pre-Modern Age, 1350-1800 8. Commerce and Industry in a United Germany, 1871 - 1914 PART 4: NETWORKED COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN JAPAN 9. Foundations of Japanese Commerce and Industry 10. Commerce in the Kamakura and Ashikaga Shogunates 11. Tokugawa Isolation, Commerce and Industry, 1603-1868 PART 5: COMPETITIVE COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE US 12. Commerce and Trade in Colonial America: 1609 to 1789 13. Post-Revolutionary War Commerce and Trade 14. Beginnings of an Industrial Nation, 1865 1920 About the Author References Index