R.P.T. Davenport-Hines's Books

This is an exploration of the life of Dudley Docker (1862-1944), one of the most powerful businessmen of his era. It sketches the life and times of Docker, describes the deals he fixed and recounts the rise and fall of the companies he directed.

First Published in 1986. This volume includes a collection of seven essays which are biographical in treatment, examining trends or incidents in the careers of individual businessmen intended to illustrate the general themes of speculation and patriotism in the period 1880–1924.

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This 1992 study of Glaxo, from its beginnings to 1962, examines the global operations of this pharmaceutical company.

First Published in 1987. Representing a range of eighteenth-century research, these articles clarify or reorientate the historical origins of many of the chief themes of more recent business history. They include the areas of The Harburgh Company from 1716 to 1723; institutional experimentation in the London-Maryland Trade; banking in London in the 1700s; the pottery trade before 1780; the Birmingham Economy; Boulton and Wedgwood; financing the French navy; and directions of conduct in a merchant’s counting house.

Book's by R.P.T. Davenport-Hines

Dudley Docker

Dudley Docker

Speculators and Patriots

Speculators and Patriots

Enterprise, Management and Innovation in British Business, 1914-80

Enterprise, Management and Innovation in British Business, 1914-80

Glaxo

Glaxo

Business in the Age of Reason

Business in the Age of Reason

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