Chapter 1 Introduction: companies and states
part Part I Sovereign companies
chapter 2 Democratic despot: the East India Company, 1783-1858
chapter 3 Reluctant sovereign: the Bank of England, 1797-1875
part Part II Joint-stock banks
chapter 4
chapter 5 Shifting gears: the rise of deposit banking, 1844-80
chapter 6
part Part III Railways
chapter 7 Early railways and the machinery of joint-stock politics The mechanization o f joint-stock politics
chapter 8 Railway republics and bureaucratic visions, 1860-75
chapter 9 Railways against democracy, 1875-1914
chapter 10 Conclusion: going public.