About D. C. Coleman
Lived 1920 – 1995 (aged 75). D. C. Coleman was a British historian.
Donald Cuthbert Coleman (21 January 1920 – 3 September 1995) was a British economic historian.
After attending The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an independent school in Elstree in Hertfordshire, Coleman served in the Royal Artillery in Africa, Italy and Greece during World War II, reaching the rank of major.
Selected publications The British paper industry, 1495–1860 : a study in industrial growth (1958, Clarendon) Sir John Banks, Baronet and Businessman: a Study of Business, Politics and Society in Later Stuart England (1963, Clarendon) (on Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet) Courtaulds: an economic and social history (on Courtaulds) Vol 1: The nineteenth century: silk and crape (1969, Clarendon) Vol 2: Rayon (1969, Clarendon) Vol 3: Crisis and change, 1940–1965 (1980, Clarendon, ) The Economy of England, 1450–1750 (1977, Oxford UP, )
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Who was D. C. Coleman?
British economic historian (1920-1995)
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D. C. Coleman was born on 21 January 1920.
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D. C. Coleman died on 3 September 1995.
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D. C. Coleman was a historian.
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D. C. Coleman was British.
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