A great business history

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The scale of Professor Coleman's history of Courtaulds reflects not merely the firm's importance in the British industrial scene today, but also its long, diverse and exceptionally interesting history. It is a monumental work, and even the tally of 804 pages, 139 tables and 75 charts fails to convey the breadth and depth of Professor Coleman's scholarship. In unfolding his endlessly fascinating, and at times movingly human story, Professor Coleman has made extensive use of statistical material drawn from the firm's archives and has presented it with considerable imagination in both tabular and graphical form. The statistics are the real backbone of the work, but they are integrated into the text with a skill that makes for easy digestion. In spite, however, of its length and the formidable nature of much of the subject-matter, this is a highly readable work: the author's gift for orderly arrangement combines with his terse wit to carry the reader along effortlessly.

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