Part 3 - Shipping power and imperial rivalries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2023
Summary
Your ships are everywhere, and you are certainly a king of men.
H.M. Stanley (Sydney, New South Wales) to Sir William Mackinnon, 22 Dec. 1891There is ‘the danger that in the trade which has got a bounty, and in other trades which hoped to get one, people would divert their energies from managing their own businesses to managing those persons who control the bounties’.
Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics, 8th edn (London, 1920), I, p. 473- Type
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- Maritime Enterprise and EmpireSir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893, pp. 279 - 280Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2003