Shareholder democracies? : corporate governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850 / by Freeman, Mark, 1974-

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Empire's tracks : indigenous nations, Chinese workers, and the transcontinental railroad / by Karuka, Manu, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The prose of countersovereignty -- Modes of relationship -- Railroad colonialism -- Lakota -- Chinese -- Pawnee -- Cheyenne -- Shareholder whiteness -- Continental imperialism -- Epilogue : the significance of decolonization in North America.…”
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Money pits : British mining companies in the Californian and Australian gold rushes of the 1850s / by Woodland, John

Table of Contents: “…An overview of the gold bubble companies -- Getting started : the company promoters -- Forming the companies -- Government policies and mining laws -- Operations in California -- Operations in Australia -- Shareholder activists -- The only success story -- The last hurrah.…”

Making the market : Victorian origins of corporate capitalism / by Johnson, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Mammon's cradle -- Contracts, debts and debtors -- Coercion, custom and contract at work -- The incorporation of business -- The limitation of liability -- Corporate performance -- Shareholders, directors and promoters -- Mammon's conceit.…”
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Making the market : Victorian origins of corporate capitalism / by Johnson, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Mammon's cradle -- Contracts, debts and debtors -- Coercion, custom and contract at work -- The incorporation of business -- The limitation of liability -- Corporate performance -- Shareholders, directors and promoters -- Mammon's conceit.…”
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Transatlantic speculations : globalization and the panics of 1873 / by Davies, Hannah Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Criminalizing Promoters, Protecting Shareholders; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The making of Tocqueville's America : law and association in the early United States / by Butterfield, Kevin, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The concept of membership in America, 1783 -- 1815 -- Friendship, formalities, and membership in post-revolutionary America -- Politics, citizenship, and association -- A common law of membership -- Practices and limits, 1800 -- 1840 -- Everyday constitutionalism in a nation of joiners -- When shareholders were members: the business corporation as voluntary association -- Determining the rights of members -- Consequences: civil society in antebellum America -- Labor unions and an American law of membership -- Conclusion: the concept of membership in the age of reform.…”
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Buying America from the Indians : Johnson v. McIntosh and the history of native land rights / by Watson, Blake A., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…-- The Illinois purchase of 1773 -- Lord Dunmore, the Wabash purchase of 1775, and revolution -- Virginia fights for the Illinois country, 1775-1781 -- The Illinois and Wabash proprietors unite -- Virginia gives up the Illinois country, 1781-1784 -- Conquest, purchase, and preemption -- A time of transition -- Cession, resistance, and removal -- The shareholders regroup -- Litigation -- Argument and decision in Johnson v. …”

A silent revolution? : gender and wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930 / by Baskerville, Peter A.

Table of Contents: “…Inheriting and Bequeathing: Women and Men in Victoria and Hamilton, 1880-1930 -- 3. The Gender of Shareholders: Investment in Banking and Insurance Stocks in Ontario, 1860-1911 -- 4. …”
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Hideous characters and beautiful pagans : performing Jewish identity on the antebellum American stage / by Nathans, Heather S.

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