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This collection of original essays is a tribute to Charles Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. They have been written by friends, colleagues and former students to honour him on his seventieth birthday. Running through the essays is the theme of enterprise in history and especially in the two fields in which Charles Wilson has been pre-eminent: business history and the economic relations of England and the Netherlands. As is appropriate for an historian with such international interests, the essays cover a wide field. They include contributions from a number of distinguished economic historians in continental Europe and the USA, as well as essays by several well-known British historians on different aspects of enterprise, including the Industrial Revolution, in Britain. The volume thus presents a comprehensive set of studies of diverse examples of the forms, consequences and interpretations of economic enterprise in history. It will thus be of substantial interest not only to business historians but also to a broad range of economic historians

This essay considers the expression that Charles d'Orléans's trans-national, trans-linguistic identity achieves in his poetry. It owes much to work by Jonathan Hsy and Ardis Butterfield, who highlight connections between Charles's writing and the geo-political situation produced by the Hundred Years War. I add to their accounts an appreciation of Charles's deliberate use of his biography in his verse in order to curry favour across audiences in England and on the Continent. I observe this process in operation at Blois, in France, where Charles wrote comic poetry among a coterie, and in England, where the poet was imprisoned for twenty-five years. I advance a new model for the transmission history of the poetry written by the duke during his incarceration, arguing that Charles prepared two corpora of his work for circulation, one politicized, the other (including the English poetry) not. Finally, my focus on the politically and socially instrumental potential of Charles's writing provides a fresh context in which to view his use of the unusual word 'Europe' in English ballade 35. I close with a consideration of Charles's sensitivity both to the valences of the word and to the discourse of English isolationism into which he draws it in this text.

Among topics discussed: Family background; father's political history; the New Deal; the Cocking affair; county unit system; Hartsfield v. Sloan; "Strike One" campaign; King v. Chapman; Supreme Court; Cook v. Fortson; Baker v. Carr; Jim Davis; Morris Abram; Democratic Forum; Kennedy campaign; Ivan Allen, Sr.; Lester Maddox; working on Ivan Allen's mayoral campaign; first congressional election. ; Charles Weltner (1927-1992) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1963 to 1967, was Fulton County Superior Court Judge from 1976 to 1981, and was Associate Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court from 1981 to 1992, serving briefly as the Chief Justice in 1992.