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Author:   George Robb
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.800kg
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9781032448589

ISBN 10:   103244858
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   23 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Volume III: Shareholders and the Culture of Investment Part 1. Shareholders and Their World 1. David Morier Evans, Speculative Notes and Notes on Speculation (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1864), pp. 141-46. 2. Union Bank of London, Charing Cross Branch, Schedule of Stock and Share Certificates belonging to Mrs. Lewes, 1 May 1879. 3. [W.M. Thackeray], “A Doe in the City,” Punch 9 (1 November 1845), p. 191. 4. [Anon.], ‘Scenes from the Life of an Unprotected Female’, Punch 18 (January 1850), pp. 22-23. 5. [Anon.], ‘Dividend Day’, All the Year Round (11 November 1893), pp. 462-64. 6. Eastern Counties Railway, Shareholders’ Meeting, London Standard (1 March 1849), p. 4. 7. George W. Hemming, ‘Railway Shareholders’, Saturday Review 1 (1856), pp. 225-26. 8. C.H. Thorpe, How to Invest and How to Speculate (London: Grant Richards, 1901), pp. 65-78. 9. Charlotte Riddell, George Geith of Fen Court, 3 Vols. (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864), Vol. 1, pp. 43-55. 10. Bracebridge Hemyng, ‘Time and Tide Wait for No Man: A Tale of the Tape’, The Stockbroker’s Wife and Other Sensational Tales of the Stock Exchange (London: John and Robert Maxwell, 1885), pp. 159-72. 11. Alexander Innes Shand, ‘Speculative Investments’, Blackwood’s Magazine 120 (September 1876), pp. 293-316. Part 2. Advice Books for Investors 12. Thomas Mortimer, Every Man His Own Broker; or, A Guide to the Stock-Exchange, 12th edition (London: W.J. and J. Richardson, 1798), pp. v-xxii. 13. [George G. Carey], A New Guide to the Public Funds; or, Every Man His Own Stock-Broker (London: D.B. Woodward, 1835), pp. 80-90. 14. Gresham Omnium, A Handy Guide to Safe Investments (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1860), pp. 50-69. 15. Arthur Crump, The Theory of Stock Exchange Speculation (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874), pp. 41-60. 16. George Gregory, Hints to Speculators and Investors in Stocks and Shares (London: George Gregory & Co., 1891), pp. 13-21. 17. A.J. Wilson, Practical Hints to Investors and Some Words to Speculators (London: Clement Wilson, 1897), pp. 9-27. 18. [Emma Sophia Galton], Guide to the Unprotected in Everyday Matters Relating to Property and Income by a Banker’s Daughter (London: Macmillan and Co., 1863), pp. 9-15. 19. Caroline Haddon, Where Does Your Interest Come From?: A Word to Lady Investors (London: John Heywood, 1886) Part 3. Financial Journalism and the Money Article 20. George Goschen, ‘Seven Per Cent’, Edinburgh Review 121 (January 1865), pp. 114-29. 21. Walter Bagehot, ‘What to Buy—I: A Series of Popular Articles on Investment’, Economist 24 (15 December 1866), pp. 1449-51. 22. Amy Bell, ‘How Women May Invest Their Money’, Englishwoman’s Review (April 1892), pp. 85-87, and (July 1892), pp. 159-61. 23. Olive Malvery, ‘Women and the Money Market’, The Ladies’ Realm 21 (November 1906), pp. 41-5. 24. [Anon.], ‘The Sham Financial Press’, The Statist (9 April 1887), pp. 389-90. 25. Charles Duguid, How to Read the Money Article (London: Effingham Wilson, 1901), pp. 99-106. Part 4. Institutional Shareholders and Trusts 26. Samuel Brown, ‘On the Investment of the Funds of Assurance Companies’, Assurance Magazine 7 (April 1858), pp. 241-54. 27. Board of Trade, Statements of Accounts and Life Assurance and Annuity Business, 1902 (London: HMSO, 1904), p. 2. 28. Augustine Birrell, The Duties and Liabilities of Trustees (London: Macmillan and Co., 1896), pp. 125-39. 29. C.H. Thorpe, How to Invest and How to Speculate (London: Grant Richards, 1901), pp. 104-14. Part 5. Investors and Imperialism 30. ‘The Dangers of Lending to Semi-Civilised Countries’, Economist 25 (23 November 1867), pp. 1321-22. 31. George Baden-Powell, Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 18 (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887), pp. 253-75. 32. [Anon.], The East India Government Guarantee on Railways (London: William H. Allen and Co., 1861), pp. 4-12. 33. Dadabhai Naoroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1901), pp. 33-34, 54-55. 34. Olive Schreiner, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897), pp. 13-37. 35. John A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study (London: James Nisbet and Co., 1902), pp. 56-63. Index

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George Robb is a Professor of British history at William Paterson University of New Jersey. For more than thirty years he has researched and written about British and American financial history.

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