Education for the mercantile counting house : critical and constructive essays by nine British writers, 1716-1794 / edited with an introduction by Terry K. Sheldahl.

Contributor Sheldahl, Terry K.

Imprint:New York : Garland Pub., 1989.

Descriptionxxiv, 412 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Development of English schooling, from Anglo-Saxon times through 1880 -- Pioneer education writer Thomas Watts -- General textbook author Martin Clare -- William Webster, writing master and accountant -- Malachy Postlethwayt, and a possible alternate, or second, author for The Accomplish'd Merchant -- Malachy Postlethwayt: entries from his Dictionary -- Rev. William Thom: anonymous Scots polemicist against the universities -- Glasgow schoolmaster William Gordon -- Literary, mathematical, and commercial school of the brothers Clarke: mathematician Henry and Baptist Cleric W(illiam) Augustus -- "Well-bred" British and American scholar William Milns.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 399-412.

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