Chapter 1 Introduction: The Early Pioneers, from the Eighteenth Century to c . 1870

Chapter 2 An Entrepreneur par excellence : The First Lord Inchcape and the Growth of the Companies in India and at Home, c.1870–1939

Chapter 3 Shipping and Trading in the Persian Gulf: Gray Paul & Co. and Gray Mackenzie & Co., c.1870–1939

Chapter 4 A British Merchant Partnership in East Africa: Smith, Mackenzie & Co., 1877–1939

Chapter 5 Maritime Enterprise in Australia: the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company [AUSN Co.] and Macdonald Hamilton & Co., 1887–1939

Chapter 6 Trade in the Far East: Companies in Hong Kong, China and Japan, c1870–1939

Chapter 7 Merchants in the South China Seas: The Borneo Company Limited and the Anglo-Thai Corporation, c.1870 to 1939

Chapter 8 Conflict and Profit: The Companies in the Second World War, 1939–45

Chapter 10 Acquisitions and Consolidation: The Inchcape Group, 1958–84

Chapter 11 Conclusion