Download or read book The Transformation of the Board of Trade 1830 1855 written by Roger Warren Prouty and published by London : Heinemann. This book was released on 1957 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous growth of industry and towns in early nineteenth-century Britain brought constant demands for Governement action in the interests of public welfare and safety. However much laissez-faire was advocates as a theory, state intervention was becoming an established system, with the Board of Trade as its chief administrative agency. The Board regulated the railways and the carriage of mails. It undertook the superintendance of the British merchant marine and concerned itself with the welfare of seamen. It set up the Meteorological Office. It was charged with the collection and publication of official statistics, and was responsible for the registration of joint stock companies. It organized schools of industrial design. At the beginning of the century the Board had been an advisory committee of the old Privy Council for all matters of trade and foreign plantations. By 1855 it had been transformed into an executive department of state, and had become, in effect, a Board of Industry. This study is important both as a history of the Board of Trade during a formative period and as a contribution to the neglected field of nineteenth century administrative history.

Download or read book Handbook of Administrative History written by Jos Raadschelders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public administration is commonly assumed to be a young discipline, rooted in law and political science, with little history of its own. Likewise, teaching and scholarship in this field is often career oriented and geared either toward the search for immediately usable knowledge or guidelines and prescriptions for the future. Although most administrative scientists would acknowledge that their field has a history, their time horizon is limited to the recent past. Raadschelders demonstrates that public administration has in fact a long-standing tradition, both in practice and in writing; administration has been an issue ever since human beings recognized the need to organize themselves in order to organize the environment in which they lived. This history, in turn, underlines the need for administrators to be aware of the importance and contemporary impact of past decisions and old traditions. In seeking to go beyond the usual problem-solving and future-oriented studies of public administration, this volume adds greatly to the cognitive richness of this field of research. Indeed, the search for theoretical generalizations will profit from an approach that unravels long-term trends in the development of administration and government."Raadschelders approaches public administration history from a dual perspective, as trained historian and professor of public administration.... The volume is appropriately called a aehandbook' in view of its methodical listing of the literature on administrative history, together with summaries of numerous authors' principal theories. The second chapter is an essay on sources in the field, including an extended bibliography.... These parts of the book alone make it useful to scholars in the field.... Raadschelders is helpful in other ways as well. The third and fourth chapters offer a highly sophisticated discussion of methodological problems encountered in writing administrative history, including the issue of perceiving 'stage

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