People, Places and Business Cultures: Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali (People, Markets, Goods)

284 Pages·2017·7.414 MB·English

by  Paolo di Martino, Andrew Popp, Peter Scott, Paolo di Martino, Andrew Popp, Peter Scott

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socio-cultural history and business history. It is inspired by the E
work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali who, throughout her career, ,

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and wider social and cultural elements. It also considers C
methodological issues and emerging approaches in economic E
history. Topics include banks and business finance in the nineteenth S

century, mass-market retailing and class demarcations, economic A
microhistory, and comparative history and capitalism. Economic,
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business, social and cultural historians alike will find it of interest.
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PAOLO DI MARTINO is Senior Lecturer in International Business History B
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ANDREW POPP is Professor of Business History at the
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PAOLO DI MARTINO
ANDREW POPP AND
Essays in Honour of
PETER SCOTT Francesca Carnevali
PeoPle, Markets, Goods:
econoMies and societies in History
Volume 9
People, Places and Business Cultures
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PeoPle, Markets, Goods:
econoMies and societies in History
ISSN: 2051-7467
Series editors
Barry Doyle – University of Huddersfield
Nigel Goose – University of Hertfordshire
Steve Hindle – The Huntington Library
Jane Humphries – University of Oxford
Willem M. Jongman – University of Groningen
The interactions of economy and society, people and goods, transactions
and actions are at the root of most human behaviours. Economic and
social historians are participants in the same conversation about how
markets have developed historically and how they have been constituted
by economic actors and agencies in various social, institutional and
geographical contexts. New debates now underpin much research in
economic and social, cultural, demographic, urban and political history.
Their themes have enduring resonance – financial stability and instability,
the costs of health and welfare, the implications of poverty and riches,
flows of trade and the centrality of communications. This paperback series
aims to attract historians interested in economics and economists with an
interest in history by publishing high quality, cutting edge academic research
in the broad field of economic and social history from the late medieval/
early modern period to the present day. It encourages the interaction of
qualitative and quantitative methods through both excellent monographs
and collections offering path-breaking overviews of key research concerns.
Taking as its benchmark international relevance and excellence it is open to
scholars and subjects of any geographical areas from the case study to the
multi-nation comparison.
Previously PublisHed titles in tHe series are
listed at tHe end of tHe voluMe
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People, Places and Business Cultures
Essays in Honour
of Francesca Carnevali
Edited by
Paolo Di Martino, Andrew Popp and Peter Scott
tHe boydell Press
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ISBN 978-1-78327-212-9
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To the memory of Francesca Carnevali, 1964–2013
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Tables x
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xiv
PART I
INTRODUCTION
Editors’ Introduction: Economic History ‘As If People Mattered’ 3
Paolo Di Martino, Peter Scott and Andrew Popp
Politics, Society, and Culture in the World of Production:
Some Reflections on Francesca Carnevali’s Legacy 13
Paolo Di Martino
PART II
BETWEEN ECONOMICS AND CULTURE: EXPLAINING
BUSINESS PRACTICES IN THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT
1. Custom and Spectacle: The Public Staging of Business Life 29
Andrew Popp
2. The Political Economy of Financing Italian Small Businesses,
1950–1990s 55
Alberto Rinaldi and Anna Spadavecchia
3. Banks and Business Finance in Britain Before 1914: A Comparative
Evaluation 75
Leslie Hannah
4. Large-Scale Retailing, Mass-Market Strategies and the Blurring of
Class Demarcations in Interwar Britain 99
Peter Scott and James T. Walker
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5. ‘Made in England’: Making and Selling the Piano, 1851–1914 127
Lucy Newton (with Francesca Carnevali)
PART III
MAKING PEOPLE MATTER: EMERGING
APPROACHES IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
6. Twentieth-Century British History: Perspectives, Trajectories and
Some Thoughts on a Revised Textbook 155
Matthew Hilton
7. From Social Capital to Social Assemblage 177
Kenneth Lipartito
8. Economic History and Microhistory 193
Chris Wickham
9. Europe’s Difference and Comparative History: Searching for
European Capitalism 201
Andrea Colli
PART IV
CONCLUSIONS
Editors’ Conclusion 223
Paolo Di Martino, Peter Scott and Andrew Popp
Appendix: Francesca Carnevali – Full List of Publications 231

Bibliography 233
Index 260
Tabula in Memoriam 267
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Illustrations
1.1 Postcard of the Liverpool Exchange, 1904.
Courtesy of Guy Atkins 31
4.1 Boots’ appeal to the classes and the masses.
Courtesy of Boots plc Archives, Beeston 105
4.2 Open merchandise display at Marks & Spencer in 1930.
Courtesy of Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Leeds 107
5.1 D’Almaine’s Pianoforte Manufactory (Thomas Hosmer
Shepherd, c.1835). © Museum of London 140
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