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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1960.
Hard Cover, 280 pages, 6.5 x 9.5.
Item #1339
Here is a hard-to-find history of the Guinness Brewery's early years, published by Cambridge University Press in 1960. From the dust jacket: "Against the background of Irish economic and social life, this book gives the history of the great Irish brewery from 1759, when Arthur Guinness first bought it, to 1876, when his great-grandson Edward Guinness (Lord Iveagh) took sole control. The authors survey the conditions in which the firm originated, and the influence of political and economic change on its rise to a leading position in England and a dominating one in Ireland." Includes several illustrations, as well as a foldout aerial view of the brewery from 1939, and a foldout Guinness family tree. TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. The economic background
2. The Irish brewing industry before 1772
3. The critical years - 1773 to 1795
4. The first Arthur Guinness and Jame's Gate brewery
5. The Irish brewing industry in 1797 and after
6. The second Arthur Guinness
7. The development of Guinnesss's trade
8. Brewing at Jame's Gate in the early nineteenth century
9. Ireland in the Great Famine and after
10. Three Guinnesses
11. Guinness's Irish agencies
12. The physical and commercial expansion of the brewery
13. Conclusion
Glossary: Scientific and technical terms
References
Appendix: Sales of Guinness, 1800-1876
Index
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