Robin J.C. Adams

Queen's University Belfast

1850s-1940s, Advertising and Marketing Industries, American Consumer Culture, Business and Economic History, diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurship, Entreprenuership, global brands, Management theory and history; Leadership; Science and technology studies; History of science; Marketing history; Consumer culture; Organizational Behavior;, Social and Cultural
Business Historians at Business Schools

Robin Adams (DPhil, Oxford) is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Economic History at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests include the careers of business elites, social mobility and, separately, the economic history of modern Ireland.

Monographs

R.J.C. Adams, Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Journal articles

R.J.C. Adams, G. Campbell, C. Coyle & J.D. Turner, ‘Business Creation and Political Turmoil: Ireland versus Scotland before 1900,’ Business History Review 96(4) (2023), 709-39. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680522000885
R.J.C. Adams & V. Nikšaitė, ‘Ethnic Fundraising in America and the Irish and Lithuanian Wars of Independence, 1918-23,’ The Historical Journal 65 (2022), 707-29. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X21000352

Book chapters

R.J.C. Adams, ‘Making Ireland: The ‘Made in Ireland’ Trademark and the Delineation of National Identity,’ in D. Higgins & N. Glover (eds.), National Brands and Global Markets: An Historical Perspective (Routledge, 2023), 46-66.
R.J.C. Adams, ‘Tides of Change and Changing Sides: The Collection of Rates in the Irish War of Independence,’ in D. Kanter & P. Walsh (eds.), Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 253-76.

Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings