Trade and traders in mid-Victorian Liverpool : mercantile business and the making of a world port

Trade and traders in mid-Victorian Liverpool : mercantile business and the making of a world port /

This book charts the development of Liverpool?s trade, shipping and business culture in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Using previously neglected evidence, it assesses the causes and consequences of major changes in the port?s economy, and considers the activities of the international...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Milne, Graeme J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Merchants > England > Liverpool > History > 19th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
Commerce
Merchants
Buitenlandse handel.
Scheepvaart.
Havens.
Liverpool (England) > Commerce > History > 19th century.
Liverpool (England) > Commerce.
England > Liverpool
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Contents; Plan of the Mersey docks, c. 1860; Preface; List of tables; List of figures; 1: Introduction: Boom, bust, crisis and opportunity; Part I: Patterns and contexts; 2: Shipping in an era of transition and opportunity; 3: Trade, diversification, regions and commodities; 4: Accommodating diversity: Port infrastructure; Part II: The dynamics of mercantile business; 5: Function, specialisation and integration; 6: Capital, credit, growth and control; 7: Insecurity, information and reputation; Part III: Institutions and influence.

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