The early emergence of European commercial education in the nineteenth century: Insights from higher engineering schools

Adrien Jean-Guy Passant

Business History, 2019, vol. 61, issue 6, 1051-1082

Abstract: The setting of European commercial education has traditionally been addressed with reference to higher schools of commerce and faculties of business. This has not taken into account empirical evidence showing that, historically, higher engineering schools also offered a mixed education in mercantile and technical subjects to students who wanted to devote themselves to business. However, this type of schooling has received little attention. This article investigates how commercial departments from higher engineering schools constituted an initial, yet ephemeral, public attempt to build an engineering model of commercial education that closely combined mercantile and technical instruction well before the twentieth century.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2018.1448063

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