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Business History On-Line H-Business is an on-line newsletter for the Business History Conference. http://www.h-net.org/~business/ Banknotes of Different Countries (In Past and Now) Images of currency of Ukraine, Austria, Brasil, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, USA, Greece, Singapore, and other countries. http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_91.html Mercantilism Brief history of merchantilism. http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/mercantilism.html Abstracts in the History of Economics Provides a forum for economic historians to share information about their works. http://cs.muohio.edu/~HisEcSoc/abstracts/index.shtml Labour and Business History - WWW Virtual Library Resources around the world in the field of labour and business history. http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/vl-res.html#lab An Analysis of the Communist Manifesto A synopsis, analysis and a downloadable copy of the Communist Manifesto along with a short biography of Marx and Engels. http://www.indepthinfo.com/communist-manifesto/index.shtml Biz/ed Chronologies Chronologies prepared by Barclays Bank Economics Department covering national (UK) and international events of significance to the economy from the last quarter of 1997 through to the present. There are also pages providing the key facts from the 1970s, 1 http://bized.ac.uk/dataserv/chron/ Latin American Colonial Economic History Provides essays, databases, and bibliography for those interested in economic history of Spanish & Portuguese colonial America. http://www.laceh.com Economy Professor A portal of economic principles covering past and current economic theories and theorists. http://www.economyprofessor.com/ History House: Stories: Tulipomania Article discussing the historical value of tulip bulbs. http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/tulip/ BPubs.com - Economic History Publications A collection of business articles related to Economic History. http://www.bpubs.com/Economics/Economic_History/ Museum of American Financial History Online exhibits and resources chronicling the role of finance and capital markets in American history. http://www.financialhistory.org/ Center for International Business History, University of Reading News about business history research and information about the center. http://www.rdg.ac.uk/CIBH/ Money Museum A virtual museum about money in civilization, from antiquity to the present. http://www.moneymuseum.com/index_english.html History of Finnish Industry Brief history of Finnish business and industry. http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/teollisuus.html History of the Banking Industry Published by the FDIC, with statistical information starting in 1934, a list of failed banks, and history of deposit insurance. http://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/history/ Business History Bibliography A categorized and annotated list of selected cross discipline information sources for doing research on the history of business. Prepared by the University of Maryland Libraries. http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/MCK/GUIDES/business_history.html After Spindletop, Everything Changed Brief history of the Lucas gusher at Spindletop, the well that began the oil boom in the U.S. http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2001/02feb/spindletop_story.html History Productions A history consulting firm that helps clients use history to improve strategic planning, marketing, branding, corporate communications, anniversary planning and corporate culture. http://www.historyproductions.com/ How Much is That Worth Today? Interactive tool to compare the purchasing power of money in the United States (or colonies) from any year to any other year from the 1600s to today. http://www.eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/dollarq.php History of the Credit Card Starting with the first credit card, issued in 1951. http://www.didyouknow.cd/creditcards.htm William Playfair's Decline and Fall of Wealthy and Powerful Nations Extracts from the long forgotten classic by William Plyfair published London 1805 entitled "An Inquiry into the Permanant Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations" http://rwj.freeshell.org Value of a Shilling in 1860 Provides formula for calculating how much a shilling is worth in today's economy. http://www.regiments.org/wombats/classics/CKSHILLG.TXT Trade Products in Early Modern History Indigo, tulips, beaver, and Brazilwood. http://www.bell.lib.umn.edu/Products/Products.html The History Mechanics New classification of an economic crisis: stagflation and overproduction. Virrual money. Flaws of the comparative advantage theory. Laws for evolution of economic and political systems. http://www.geocities.com/historymech/ The Sodfather: A Friend of Agriculture in North Carolina Exhibition celebrating the career of North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Jim Graham served in that office from 1964 to 2000. Documents Graham's career and reveals the positive societal impact of an inspired public official. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/archives/exhibits/sodfather/ Singapore. Socio-economic development . Singapore An essay - recent history (1960-1980)- on the subject of the socio-economic development of the city-state Singapore - socio development http://www.cranendonk.com/singapore.htm 1987 Stock Market Crash Page A look back at the 1987 stock market crash. Provides a description of the event, charts, and an account of the causes they may have led to the 23% decline. http://www.lope.ca/markets/1987.html Paperback Books A multi-part, illustrated history of paperback publishing, with special emphasis on the United States. http://paperbarn.www1.50megs.com/Paperbacks/index.htm The 19th Century Stock Price Project Source of stock market data from North American stock exchanges of the nineteenth century. http://hometown.aol.com/thkalinke/homepage/19CSPP.html Ancient Economies A page edited by Morris Silver devoted to the consideration of unsettled or disputed aspects of ancient economies. (Note: Tripod site with popups.) http://sondmor.tripod.com/index-html The History of the Dow Jones Averages Information about how Charles Dow devised the now famous stock averages and a chronology of their activity from 1884 to 1995. http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/FINANCE/DowJonesAvgsHist.html History of the Eighties - Lessons for the Future A study prepared by the FDIC's Division of Research and Statistics presents a detailed analysis of the complex combination of causes that led to the extraordinary number of bank failures in the 1980s and early 1990s. http://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/history/contents.html Merrimack Films - Features on Labor History Merrimack Films was founded in 1983 to produce and distribute films and videos on labor relations. http://www.merrimack-films.com/history.html The US Misery Index The misery index was initiated by Chicago Economist Robert Barro in the 1970's. It is simply the unemployment rate added to the inflation rate. It is assumed that both a higher rate of unemployment and a worsening of inflation both create economic and soc http://www.miseryindex.us Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada An online directory of archives and other repositories of historical corporate records. Includes directory of professional associations for corporate and industrial archivists. http://www.hunterinformation.com/corporat.htm Brain Bank - The Oldest Companies The ten oldest companies in the U.S. by Rank. http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/CORPORATEADMINISTRATION/OldestCos.html A History of Money A general review of the historical development of coinage. http://www.mintmark.com/moneyhistory.htm Treasure and Prices in Spain 1505-1650 Provide statistics to test the idea that the price level is related to the inflow of treasure into the Spanish economy. http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/spgold.htm Beyond Face Value - Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency Online exhibit focusing on slavery depicted in money notes issued and circulated in the South during the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction Era. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/cwc/BeyondFaceValue/index.htm Euro-Business-History Discussion List Devoted to scholarly discussion of business history in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/euro-business-history/ Business History Large resource of histories and stories of American business, including audio and video archives, academic and corporate articles, and "fun facts." http://www.businesshistory.net/ A History of Taxation A history of taxation in various parts of the world. http://www.taxworld.org/History/TaxHistory.htm Economics, Coins and Taxes Articles on accounting, money, taxation, and other aspects of economics in antiquity. http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/economics/index.htm WIDER Home Page The United Nations University website. Provides links to download the World Income Inequality database. http://www.wider.unu.edu/ Transatlantic Cable Communications History of the first transatlantic cables linking Britain and North America, the socio-economic impacts, famous messages such as the messages from the Titanic, photos, sound and video files, glossary. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cable/ The Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency Specializing in information about the paper moneyof the American colonies. http://www.virginia.edu/~econ/brock.html The Coins and History of Asia Information and scans of over 1100 coins http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/coins.html American Currency Exhibit The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's online exhibit of historical American Currency http://www.frbsf.org/currency/index.html Eh.Net History of Economics Site Provides access to resources for teaching, scholarship and research in the history of economics and economic thought. http://www.eh.net/HE/ History of Economic Thought A repository of links and information on the history of economic thought, from the ancient times until the modern day, designed for those interested in learning about economics from a historical perspective. http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/ The Bubble Project A collaborative and interdisciplinary research initiative on the subject of the South Sea Bubble, the first great stock-market crash of 1720. http://is.dal.ca/~dmcneil/bubble.html Technological Innovation in New Zealand The site tells stories about the technologies important to the New Zealand economy in the 20th Century. Most of these technologies were identified by the end of the First World War. http://www.techhistory.co.nz/ Martha Matilda Harper - Business Revolutionary Martha Matilda Harper Biography http://www.MarthaMatildaHarper.com/ World Wide Web Virtual Library: Labour and Business History Web directory of organizations, archives, libraries, museums, research institutions and resources around the world in the field of labour and business history. http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/index.html#new Costs and Wages in Great Britain Shows what a pence, shilling, and pound was actually worth throughout the history of Great Britain. http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/7503/greatbritainmoney.html The Working-Class Owner-Occupied House Of The 1930s A brief history of the growth of housing in the United Kingdom including the economic, political and social history surrounding its development in the 1930's http://www.thesis.clara.net Tax History Project Provides scholars, policymakers, students, the media, and citizens with information about the history of American taxation. The project pursues its mission through a program of web-based documentary publication and original historical research. http://www.taxhistory.org/ The Revival of Commerce and Towns Lectures in Medieval History, by Lynn Harry Nelson, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/towns.html Dutch National Accounts, 1800-1913 Analysis of the development of the Dutch Economy in the period 1800-1913. Dutch GNP and its components. Historical statistics. http://nationalaccounts.niwi.knaw.nl BusinessPhilosophy.com Studying the classics and great books in the context of the history of business. http://businessphilosophy.com Journal of Markets & Morality A peer reviewed journal promoting the intellectual exploration of the relationship between economics and morality from both social science and theological perspectives. http://www.marketsandmorality.com/ Celebrating the Birth of Texas Oil Article about the discovery of oil Texas, the development of the oil industry and its economic impact in the early 20th century. http://www.texas-ec.org/tcp/101oil.html Slouching Towards Utopia - Old Draft An economic history of the 20th Century. http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Old.html SCETI: Corporate Annual Reports This site contains facsimiles of historic corporate annual reports from the Lippincott Library collection at the University of Pennsylvania. http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/lippincott/ Did You Know? Briefly traces the development of products that took 100 years to get from the idea stage to the marketplace. http://www.didyouknow.cd/firstfax.htm Stock Market Crash! Learn about historic stock market crashes and other economic calamities. http://www.stock-market-crash.net Sears Archives More than 100 years of stories, product and brand histories,and photographs are now available online. http://www.searsarchives.com Spindletop Brief history of the first oil gusher in the continental United States in 1901. http://db1.ledbettersystems.com/legendary/legdetail.asp?Tex_ID=111 History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day Money in its social, political, and economic context from the dawn of history to the end of the 20th century. http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/llyfr.html The Avalon Project : Charter of the Dutch West India Company : 1621 Full text of the Charter of the Dutch West India Company, 1621. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/westind.htm Current Value of Old Money Links to inflation statistics, price indexes, and sources of data on changes in the value of money. http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html History of Economics Resources for historians of economic thought provided by EH.Net and the History of Economics Society. http://www.eh.net/ The Basics of Business History: 100 Events That Shaped a Century A timeline of significant events in business during the 20th century from TheStreet.com. http://www.thestreet.com/basics/countdown/747965.html Wall Street Museum Presents galleries of art, architecture, and history of investing and finance, including editorial cartoons and sketches of buildings. http://66.70.245.136/museum/ Management-History Discussion List Supports critical and scholarly discussion, reflection and research in the area of management and administrative history. http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/management-history/ Tax History Foundation and Museum, Inc. The foundation's mission is to encourage the study of accounting, commercial and economic history. http://www.taxhistoryfoundation.com

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