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Journal articles on the topic "Businessmen – Great Britain"
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McDermott, John. "“A Needless Sacrifice”: British Businessmen and Business As Usual in the First World War." Albion 21, no. 2 (1989): 263–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4049929.
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The First World War ended Great Britain's nineteenth-century world economic supremacy, which had been steadily eroded in the decades before 1914. Within Britain, the war also changed the way in which individuals carried on business, the attitudes of the business community toward government, the government's own policies toward trade and traders, and public opinion on these matters, as reflected in the press. Although it is far too simplistic to claim that the war spelled the end of laissez-faire in Britain, state control of the economy did increase in a country whose economic culture was based on free trade and minimal government interference in business. Moreover, before 1914 Britain had to export to pay its way in the world, and its economy, more than that of any other great power, depended upon peace for prosperity. In this setting, Germany was the biggest European customer for British exports, as well as being the source of vital imports, such as aniline dyes, optical, and electrical goods. Thus the application of economic warfare against Germany and its allies deeply affected the British economy and businessmen who were suddenly forced by official edict to relinquish a traditional market in patriotic support of their government's blockade of the German Empire.
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Morozov, Stanislav V. "1925–1935: Locar “Legal Mechanism for ‘Pushing’ Germany to the East”. The Oil Factor." Economic Strategies 144, no. 2 (182) (April 25, 2022): 108–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.33917/es-2.182.2022.108-115.
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The article examines the factor of oil, when some influential politicians and big businessmen, primarily in Great Britain, tried to use for their far-reaching goals the factual absence of the Weimar Republic's own oil fields. Monopolization of oil supplies in the context of the implementation of the “legal mechanism for ‘pushing’ Germany to the East” made it possible to a certain extent to manage the foreign policy activity of the Hitlerite regime.
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Hamlin, David. "“The World Will Have a New Face”: Germans and the Post-World War I Global Economic Order." Central European History 52, no. 02 (June 2019): 233–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000893891900013x.
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AbstractWorld War I reshaped the international economy. This was, in part, the consequence of British mobilization of resources for its own war effort, which aligned producer interests around the world with those of the United Kingdom. But it was also a consequence of Western policy aimed at excluding German businessmen from global markets. German planners noted during World War I that Great Britain, in particular, was expressing an interest in continuing such exclusion after the war, with potentially enormous economic consequences for Germany. Combatting or preventing such an economic “war after the war” prompted German businessmen and politicians to support a series of policies that would have profoundly changed the institutions and norms of the prewar international economy. These policies ranged from imposing one-sided trade agreements, expanding the mark zone, and establishing German control over Eastern European industries and infrastructure, to creating shipping cartels and imposing compulsory raw material delivery agreements on the Western powers. The result of German efforts to direct trade and investment in ways preferable to the German state would have been a deeply politicized postwar international economy. The article argues that economic questions were thus a central component of German war aims, but that these were not fixed: they evolved over the course of the war in response to changes in the international economy, and they focused not on short-term emergencies but rather on longer-term structural changes.
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Lubenow, W. C. "Irish Home Rule and the Social Basis of the Great Separation in the Liberal Party in 1886." Historical Journal 28, no. 1 (March 1985): 125–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00002247.
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Though Mr Gladstone was speaking of the opposition to home rule in the country, rather than in the parliamentary Liberal party alone in the statement quoted above, this has become the rather standard interpretation of the great separation in the Liberal party in 1886. As one modern historian of the Liberal disruption puts it, ‘a striking characteristic of modern British history has been the class alignment of political parties… The Liberal Unionist party (those who seceded on the home rule question) was a half-way house, which entertained for a time much of the wealth and territorial influence which had been Liberal and was to be Conservative.’ One of the most influential historians of late-nineteenth-century Britain puts the issue in broader terms. The origins of Conservative dominance as well as the leakage of the landed and business classes to the Conservative party, Sir Robert Ensor argues, are to be found in the undermining of English and Irish agriculture by the invasion of North American wheat. This produced, in turn, agrarian revolution in Ireland, the rise of violent nationalism in Ireland, the growth of social and political conflict, and, ultimately, the rejection of Irish political demands by the English. Yet another attributes the fall of Gladstone's third ministry to a general revolt against the Liberal party by railway directors and other businessmen who had been alerted to the dangers to property which the government's railway policies implied. This theme has been taken up and many have come to argue that class voting emerged in 1886 when the upper – and middle-class Liberals, taking home rule as an excuse, departed to the Conservatives in a reaction against growing social radicalism.
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Diamond, Marian. "Tea and Sympathy: Foundations of the Australia/China Trading Networks." Queensland Review 6, no. 2 (November 1999): 24–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600001124.
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In 1824, a group of London businessmen established the Australian Agricultural Company (AAC), Australia's oldest chartered company. Their prospectus listed amongst their objectives, after the raising of sheep and cattle, the production ‘at a more distant time, of Wine, Olive-Oil, Hemp, Flax, Silk, Opium, &c. as articles of export to Great Britain’. In 1828, a local manager reported that he thought that ‘if the labour of the Blacks can be procured for the operative part the culture [of opium] would likely prove profitable to the Company.’ And in 1833, the Australian manager of the company sent the London Board a sample of the first opium grown on company lands in the Hunter River area. The board had it evaluated by a pharmacist, who reported that it was ‘of fair, merchantable quality, about equal to Egyptian Opium. — It contains two thirds of the quantity of Morphia usually found in the best Turkey Opium. In this market, when Turkey Opium is worth 15s./ p lb., we have no doubt that such Opium as your Sample would sell for 14s/ p Ib. On the basis of this disappointing assessment, the Australian Agricultural Company abandoned opium growing — and opium growing was abandoned in Australia for another hundred and fifty years.
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Harris, Richard I. D., Renee S. Reid, and Rodney McAdam. "Consultation and communication in family businesses in Great Britain." International Journal of Human Resource Management 15, no. 8 (December 2004): 1424–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0958519042000258011.
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Bradley, Tony, and Curtis Ziniel. "Green governance? Local politics and ethical businesses in Great Britain." Business Ethics: A European Review 26, no. 1 (December 8, 2016): 18–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/beer.12134.
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Harris, Richard I. D., Renee S. Reid, and Rodney McAdam. "Employee involvement in family and non‐family‐owned businesses in Great Britain." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 10, no. 1/2 (February 2004): 49–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13552550410521371.
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Keqi, Armanda, Bora Kokalari, and Sabina Beqiri. "Youth Development in Albania." European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research 1, no. 1 (May 1, 2014): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejser.v1i1.p43-47.
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Young generations are those who make lives livelier and happier, who design the future and make the change, the ones with full hope and enthusiasm to go further and make the impossible possible. As every country of Europe, Asia or America, Albania as well is surrounded by a very fruitful young ladies and gentlemen's. This paper aims to analyse the changes of the youth development in Albania during the transition period. The young development in Albania has faced many problems, such as the difference between the levels of development of the youths that live in the other cities of Albania with the ones of the capital. Rural areas and small towns are closed where a portion of youth in minor are totally dependent from family, and they are exactly that with their weak hands are inclined to do the heavy work to keep their family one more day alive. Youth at the opening of the borders, generally tended to leave towards legal immigration either as tourist or in illegal opportunities addressing major countries like Britain, Greece, Italy, Belgium etc. Albania needs to make arrangements which will be financed by businessmen, private universities in cooperation with the state to offer young people opportunities to work together and to be closer to each other and to show their skills in conversation competitions. At the same time the state has other open universities in backward areas which will provide young entrepreneurs' with more opportunities for young people to graduate and to serve different areas. Meanwhile, there is needed a strategy to separate the fields in which there is a need to have more expert in the field which is required to work also which would come more to help the country's economy with the addition of experts. Albania is a country blessed where high mountains finish in seas, where groundwater resources are numerous, and with a conductive climate to produce almost all kinds of fruits and where vegetation is very diverse. If the youth will be directed towards learning of foreign languages and in recognition of their territories, traditions and customs, thus, we would make a big step because tourism market is precisely the kind of market where young people will find themselves more comfortable than ever, where the labour force will be insufficient paid and where the demand for products would be required as the number of tourists would be great and just the requirements would change in terms of application areas during the summer as it would be for beaches and seasonal fruits, while during the winter for skiing and mountain tourism.
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Birley, Sue, and Paul Westhead. "A Comparison of New Businesses Established by 'Novice' and 'Habitual' Founders in Great Britain." International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship 12, no. 1 (October 1993): 38–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266242693121003.
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Preston, Amanda Lorraine. "Richard Charles Nicholas Branson : a psychobiographical study." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/5543.
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Unique individuals are fascinating as we all want to be successful. There is thus a need to understand, unpack and share the psychological development and traits that allow some people to become sui generis, and to learn from them. Psychobiographical research is a qualitative approach that can be utilised to uncover the story of such an individual life, resulting in greater understanding of the psychological concepts underpinning the person. This form of study is invaluable, and involves applying psychological theory to lives completed or unfinished, enabling the development and testing of developmental theories. Richard Branson (1950-present), an entrepreneur, adventurer, philanthropist and family man is the single psychological subject chosen in this study. Branson was selected based on interest value, his uniqueness and the lack of a specifically academic and psychologically focused case study on his life. The primary aim was to explore and describe Branson’s personality development across his life, to date. This was achieved by applying both Maslow’s (1954, 1970) theory of optimal development and Adler’s (1929, 1956) Individual Psychology theory to provide a comprehensive idiographic interpretation of the development of Branson. To achieve this, the case study utilised the systematic and consistent collection, analysis and interpretation of life history materials, highlighting three areas of development, namely Childhood, Adolescence and Adulthood. The theoretical frameworks were used to discern, transform and reconstruct his life into a coherent and illuminating narrative of his psychological movement through life. Alexander’s (1988; 1990) model of identifying salient themes was used to analyse data for analytical generalisation (Yin, 2009). The conceptual framework derived from the theoretical perspective was constructed to organize, integrate data, and guide the presentation and discussion of findings of the study in an integrative and comprehensive manner. The findings suggest both Maslow’s and Adler’s theories considered the biopsychosocial context in Branson’s personality development and, at least to some extent, supported concepts indicative of progression toward optimality through having met the needs of the ego actualisation of his self, toward transcending selfishness and attaining altruism and social interest. The study of Branson’s personality development has provided a positive demonstration of the value of Maslow’s (1970a) and Adler’s (1929, 1956) theories to understand the process of development. It has further highlighted the unique trajectory of an individual’s life, contextualized, as well as the possibility of being agents in our own lives and despite challenges, able to become our own idiosyncratic best. The study also highlights the need, at a macro level, for governments to assist those unable to satisfy basic needs such as food, shelter and safety, to set an imperative, to aid those who struggle if a country and its people are to be uplifted. In terms of Adlerian theory, the study highlights the importance of family and early experiences in supporting the earliest years of children to assist them to develop an identity that is healthy and socially useful. Finally, recommendations were made for future research utilising a psychobiographical research design to uncover, illuminate and reconstruct the lives of outstanding and interesting individuals.
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Basu, Dipannita. "Afro-Caribbean businesses in Great Britain : factors affecting business success and marginality." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549660.
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This thesis is an exploratory study of the factors affecting success and marginality of Afro-Caribbean small business through the experiences of Afro-Caribbean business owners in the food industry in Manchester. The thesis argues that an understanding of Afro-Caribbean business development and the factors that underly business success and marginality can only be understood in the light of the broader structures and processes that have given rise to the patterns of AfroCaribbean migration and settlement within Britain. It is within these broader processes that the factors underlying success and marginality are examined through interviews, case stUdies and non-participant observation. The factors underlying success and marginality are examined for two types of businesses. Firstly, those businesses which are dependent on the customer patronage of their own ethnic group (ethnicmarket- dependent businesses). Secondly, those businesses which are dependent on the customer patronage of a wider, non-ethnic customer base (wider-market-dependent businesses). The study concludes that the encouragement of Afro-Caribbean small business ownership as a palliative for the socio-economic ills faced by this community can only be achieved in tandem with policies that provide equality of opportunity in the broader economic and social allocatory systems of British society.
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LYON, Dawn. "The making of careers : women and men in business and politics in Britain, Belgium and France." Doctoral thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5299.
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Defence date: 17 June 2003Examining board: Prof. Colin Crouch (EUI - Supervisor) ; Dr. Susan Halford (Southampton) ; Prof. Michèle Lamont (Harvard) ; Prof. Peter Wagner (EUI)
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Davey, Michael. "Businessmen in the British Parliament, 1832-1886 : a study of aspiration and achievement." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/74063.
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The businessmen who were elected to the British Parliament after the First Reform Act had not acquired country estates or rotten boroughs as had their predecessors. They were critical of the established aristocratic dominance and they had policies they wanted to promote. Few succeeded in exerting any real influence due to the entrenched power of the landed gentry, their older age when elected and their lack of public experience. This thesis identifies six businessmen who were important contributors to national politics and were thus exceptions to the more usual parliamentary subordination to the gentry. They were generally younger when elected, they had experience in municipal government and with national agitation groups; they were intelligent and hard working. Unlike some other businessmen who unashamedly promoted sectional interests, these men saw their business activities as only incidental to their parliamentary careers. Having been in business did however provide them with some understanding of the aims of the urban working class, and it also gave them the financial backing to enter politics. The social backgrounds and political imperatives of this group of influential businessmen and how these affected their actions are discussed in this thesis. Their successes and failures are analysed and it is argued that their positions on policy issues can be attributed to their strong beliefs rather than their business background. Reference is made to the achievements of contemporary aristocratic politicians and compared with those of the businessmen. It will be shown that, particularly during the period between the first two Reform Acts, the aristocratic ascendency continued. However it is argued that for the businessmen to have reached the level of influence they did was a significant achievement in itself.Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, 2012
Books on the topic "Businessmen – Great Britain"
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Dakers, Caroline. A genius for money: Business, art and the Morrisons. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
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Robinson, Jeffrey. The Risk takers: Portraits of money, ego and power. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1985.
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Raising the bar: The story of one man's vision and dedication. Leicester: Matador, 2009.
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The risk takers: Portraits of money, ego & power. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1986.
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Malchow, Howard L. Gentlemen capitalists: The social and political world of the Victorian businessmen. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1992.
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Sir Edward Watkin, 1819-1901: The last of the Railway Kings. Lewes, East Sussex: Book Guild, 2005.
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Macqueen, Adam. The king of Sunlight: How William Lever cleaned up the world. London: Bantam, 2004.
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Anyone can do it. London: Orion, 2007.
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Robinson, Jeffrey. The risk takers: Portraits of money, ego & power. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1986.
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The risk takers: Portraits in money, ego and power. London: Allen & Unwin, 1985.
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Duncan, Peter, and Nicholas Lord. "Organized Crime Money Laundering through Online Gambling Businesses in Great Britain." In The Private Sector and Organized Crime, 195–209. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003198635-14.
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Stedman Jones, Daniel. "A Transatlantic Network." In Masters of the Universe. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161013.003.0005.
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This chapter explores how a transatlantic network of sympathetic businessmen and fundraisers, journalists and politicians, policy experts and academics grew and spread neoliberal ideas between the 1940s and the 1970s. These individuals were successful at promoting ideas through a new type of political organization, the think tank. The first wave of neoliberal think tanks were set up in the 1940s and 1950s and included the American Enterprise Institute and the Foundation for Economic Education in the United States, and the Institute of Economic Affairs in Great Britain. A second wave of neoliberal think tanks were established in the 1970s, including the Centre for Policy Studies and the Adam Smith Institute in Great Britain, and the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute in the United States.
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Berghahn, Volker R. "Conclusions." In American Big Business in Britain and Germany. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161099.003.0008.
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This concluding chapter summarizes the major points of the preceding chapters. For the period up to World War I, it became clear that the elites of the United States, and its businessmen on the East and West coasts in particular, saw their country as a highly dynamic and modern industrial and financial power. Based on the idea of a competitive capitalism, American big business, in the wake of the great merger wave of the late nineteenth century and congressional legislation that had banned the formation of cartels and monopolies, developed in the direction of an oligopolistic market organization. These developments shaped corporate attitudes and practices toward the domestic and international economy from 1900 onward. No less important, the emergence of the United States as a major industrial power stirred Britain and Germany into responses to the American challenge.
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Hetherington, Peter. "The Climate Challenge: Land versus Water." In Land Renewed, 81–97. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529217414.003.0006.
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This chapter discusses the situation of the Fens, a plain in England that was drained from the early 17th to the mid-19th centuries to turn into the country's best arable acres. Today, these flatlands — a food bowl for Britain — are degrading as the ground sinks. The chapter also highlights that Great Britain is an island nation vulnerable to rising sea levels as climate change undermines an already low, and falling, self-sufficiency in food. On Britain's fast-eroding coastline, land is disappearing by four metres a year in some areas, particularly in the east of England. As a result, England, Scotland and Wales face two challenges: reinforcing sea defences where practical and, elsewhere where it's impractical, preparing to relocate residents and businesses.
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Banham, Tony. "Conclusion." In Reduced to a Symbolical Scale. Hong Kong University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888390878.003.0008.
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So we decided to emigrate to Australia and I suppose we could now be called ‘Dinkum Aussies’ – after 30 years.1 By 1946 Hong Kong’s pre-war colonial society, which had celebrated its hundredth birthday just five years earlier, had gone forever. Hong Kong, to the British people who lived there between the twentieth century’s two great wars, had been perhaps the prime real estate to be had in the empire. Life there was entertaining and cheap, profits were bountiful. But then came the threat of war. Mindful of their own situation in 1939, the British government instructed the Hong Kong government to mandate evacuation of British women and children should the colony be threatened by attack. In mid-1940, as the Battle of Britain stamped an indelible, greasy smoke stain through British skies thousands of miles away, the majority of Hong Kong’s civilians prescriptively escaped the threat of Asian war. Those families split asunder would often—in the context of the more than 200 husbands killed, and the many divorces—never be reunited; the cost of war being measured in permanently broken homes. That evacuation, in stages from Hong Kong to the Philippines, from the Philippines to Australia, and from Australia to the UK, or back to Hong Kong, and—in many cases—back to Australia again, would define many lives. Looking at Australia’s population today, a surprisingly large number can—at least in part—track their heritage back to Hong Kong’s pre-war society: the garrison, the businessmen, earlier evacuees who had washed up in the colony, and local families. From the perspective of Australia’s twenty-first century population, the effects of Hong Kong’s evacuation still reverberate through tens of thousands of its people. Many of the ancestors of those Australians are buried in Hong Kong or—for those who died as prisoners of war—in Japan, or they lie lost and forgotten, skeletons in Hong Kong’s remotest ravines or at the bottom of the South China Sea....
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Cox, Howard, and Simon Mowatt. "The Economics of Press and Periodical Production." In The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2, 35–57. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424882.003.0002.
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This chapter assesses the interplay of technological innovation and market forces on the development of press and periodical publishing in nineteenth-century Great Britain. It gives due consideration to the significance of institutional factors and the role of government policies towards publishing up until 1855. The chapter begins by exploring how the so-called ‘taxes on knowledge’ affected the economics of periodical and penny magazines publishing in the first half of the nineteenth-century. It then moves on to consider the economic development of the press in Britain and Ireland across three distinct time periods. Until mid-century, periodical publishing firms tended to be small businesses, mainly family-owned, that almost invariably produced just a single title. Between 1850 and 1870, a small number of London-based publishers began to issue a portfolio of publications, particularly in the field of popular women’s magazines and Sunday newspapers, directed at a national audience served by vertically integrated wholesalers/retailers, most notably W.H. Smith. By the final quarter of the nineteenth-century radical improvements in the technology of printing and increased disposable incomes facilitated the emergence of large-scale newspaper and magazine enterprises such as those of George Newnes and Alfred Harmsworth, focused on London’s Fleet Street.
Reports on the topic "Businessmen – Great Britain"
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Seamans, Thomas, and Allen Gosser. Bird dispersal techniques. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, August 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2016.7207730.ws.
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Conflicts between humans and birds likely have existed since agricultural practices began. Paintings from ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Roman civilizations depict birds attacking crops. In Great Britain, recording of efforts at reducing bird damage began in the 1400s, with books on bird control written in the 1600s. Even so, the problem persists. Avian damage to crops remains an issue today, but we also are concerned with damage to homes, businesses, and aircraft, and the possibility of disease transmission from birds to humans or livestock. Bird dispersal techniques are a vital part of safely and efficiently reducing bird conflicts with humans. The bird must perceive a technique as a threat if it is to be effective. No single technique can solve all bird conflicts, but an integrated use of multiple techniques, each enhancing the other, generally provides relief.