Robert Gardella
Biographic Data
| ID | 715081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Gardella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Gardella |
| SIGNATURE | GARDELLA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Merchant Marine Academy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chinese Business History: Interpretive Trends and Priorities for the Future
This study focuses on how Chinese business organization, practice, and success have been interpreted in the historical literature. By introducing various interpretations of China's economic development (including the impact of the West, modernization, and Marxist, Weberian, and revisionist approaches), as well as Western business history theory, the book establishes a basis for constructing an appropriate framework for future research.
Contract and Property in Early Modern China
The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of day-to-day economic activity. Offering a new perspective on economic and …
Tea Processing in China, circa 1885—A Photographic Essay
At the time these photographs originated in an unspecified location in late-nineteenth-century China, the Chinese had been cultivating tea ( Camellia sinensis ) and processing it for almost two millennia. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, after decades of false starts and ceaseless experimentation, British entrepreneurs in India and Ceylon and the Dutch in Java successfully initiated plantation cultivation, pioneered the mechanized pr…
Chinese Business History
Harvesting Mountains
Squaring Accounts
Accounting has been defined as "the art of classifying, recording, and reporting significant financial events to facilitate effective economic activity" (Davidson 1968:14). The description, terse as it is, evokes the image of accounting's role as overseer in the global formation of mercantile and industrial capitalism. According to the historical sociologists Werner Sombart and Max Weber, methodical accounting methods were basic attributes of the…
The Management of Monopoly. A Study of the English East India Company's Conduct of Its Tea Trade, 1784-1833
The Maritime History of Late Imperial China
Vol. 6, No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1985 THE MARITIME HISTORY OF LATE IMPERIAL CHINA: OBSERVATIONS ON CURRENT CONCERNS AND RECENT RESEARCH Robert Gardella* Interest in Chinese maritime history has heightened both in China and abroad over the past several years. Perhaps this reflects the realization that, after a lapse of some five and a half centuries since Zheng Ho's flotillas plied the oceans of Asia, both the People's Republic of China (…
Sociology
An Introduction to Chinese Civilization
The Classic of Tea by Lu Yü
Agrarian Policies and Politics in Communist and Non-Communist Countries
Every Fifth Child
Report from Peking-Observations of a Western Diplomat on the Cultural Revolution
Religious Policy and Practice in Communist China-A Documentary History
Squaring Accounts
Accounting has been defined as "the art of classifying, recording, and reporting significant financial events to facilitate effective economic activity" (Davidson 1968:14). The description, terse as it is, evokes the image of accounting's role as overseer in the global formation of mercantile and industrial capitalism. According to the historical sociologists Werner Sombart and Max Weber, methodical accounting methods were basic attributes of the…
Tea Processing in China, circa 1885—A Photographic Essay
At the time these photographs originated in an unspecified location in late-nineteenth-century China, the Chinese had been cultivating tea ( Camellia sinensis ) and processing it for almost two millennia. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, after decades of false starts and ceaseless experimentation, British entrepreneurs in India and Ceylon and the Dutch in Java successfully initiated plantation cultivation, pioneered the mechanized pr…
Report from Peking-Observations of a Western Diplomat on the Cultural Revolution
Religious Policy and Practice in Communist China-A Documentary History
Agrarian Policies and Politics in Communist and Non-Communist Countries
Every Fifth Child
An Introduction to Chinese Civilization
The Classic of Tea by Lu Yü
The Management of Monopoly. A Study of the English East India Company's Conduct of Its Tea Trade, 1784-1833
The Maritime History of Late Imperial China
Vol. 6, No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1985 THE MARITIME HISTORY OF LATE IMPERIAL CHINA: OBSERVATIONS ON CURRENT CONCERNS AND RECENT RESEARCH Robert Gardella* Interest in Chinese maritime history has heightened both in China and abroad over the past several years. Perhaps this reflects the realization that, after a lapse of some five and a half centuries since Zheng Ho's flotillas plied the oceans of Asia, both the People's Republic of China (…
Sociology
Squaring Accounts
Accounting has been defined as "the art of classifying, recording, and reporting significant financial events to facilitate effective economic activity" (Davidson 1968:14). The description, terse as it is, evokes the image of accounting's role as overseer in the global formation of mercantile and industrial capitalism. According to the historical sociologists Werner Sombart and Max Weber, methodical accounting methods were basic attributes of the…
Harvesting Mountains
Chinese Business History
Tea Processing in China, circa 1885—A Photographic Essay
At the time these photographs originated in an unspecified location in late-nineteenth-century China, the Chinese had been cultivating tea ( Camellia sinensis ) and processing it for almost two millennia. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, after decades of false starts and ceaseless experimentation, British entrepreneurs in India and Ceylon and the Dutch in Java successfully initiated plantation cultivation, pioneered the mechanized pr…
Contract and Property in Early Modern China
The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of day-to-day economic activity. Offering a new perspective on economic and …
Chinese Business History: Interpretive Trends and Priorities for the Future
This study focuses on how Chinese business organization, practice, and success have been interpreted in the historical literature. By introducing various interpretations of China's economic development (including the impact of the West, modernization, and Marxist, Weberian, and revisionist approaches), as well as Western business history theory, the book establishes a basis for constructing an appropriate framework for future research.
History (11 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · China (8 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Economic history (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works)