In recent years considerable attention has been paid to the contribution of the business community and the middle class in general to urban development in the nineteenth century. This book represents an important contribution to existing historiography through an exploration of a range of key issues in business, maritime and urban history based on an innovative and path-breaking study of the merchant community in nineteenth-century Liverpool.
In recent years considerable attention has been paid to the contribution of the business community and the middle class in general to urban development in the nineteenth century. This book represents an important contribution to existing historiography through an exploration of a range of key issues in business, maritime and urban history based on an innovative and path-breaking study of the merchant community in nineteenth-century Liverpool.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Robert Lee was the Chaddock Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Liverpool where he is now an emeritus and research professor. He has written widely on European demographic, economic, and social history, particularly on the nineteenth century and specifically on nineteenth-century Germany.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Networks of influence and power: the forging of Liverpool's merchant community. 2. The Mercantile Liverpool Project Database: Sources and Findings. 3. The business environment. 4. Ethics, trust and reputation. 5. 'THE VISIBLE EMBODIMENT OF MODERN COMMERCE': The development of Liverpool's commercial centre. 6. Kinship, Friendship and Partnership: The social networks of the Liverpool merchant community. 7. Intersecting worlds: women, the family, and merchant culture. 8. 'THE MARK OF OPULENCE, TASTE AND SKILL': Liverpool merchants' houses, c.1750-c.1900. 9. 'To Purer Air and Brighter Skies': Escaping from the City. 10. Suburbanisation, Community Building and the Fragmentation of Business Culture: the impact on Liverpool of residential development on the Wirral. 11. Deconstructing Liverpool's Merchant Networks: transience, religion, politics and business interests. 12. Associational Culture, Social Influence and the Cultural Embeddedness of Merchant Networks: a reassessment. 13. Postscript.
1. Networks of influence and power: the forging of Liverpool's merchant community. 2. The Mercantile Liverpool Project Database: Sources and Findings. 3. The business environment. 4. Ethics, trust and reputation. 5. 'THE VISIBLE EMBODIMENT OF MODERN COMMERCE': The development of Liverpool's commercial centre. 6. Kinship, Friendship and Partnership: The social networks of the Liverpool merchant community. 7. Intersecting worlds: women, the family, and merchant culture. 8. 'THE MARK OF OPULENCE, TASTE AND SKILL': Liverpool merchants' houses, c.1750-c.1900. 9. 'To Purer Air and Brighter Skies': Escaping from the City. 10. Suburbanisation, Community Building and the Fragmentation of Business Culture: the impact on Liverpool of residential development on the Wirral. 11. Deconstructing Liverpool's Merchant Networks: transience, religion, politics and business interests. 12. Associational Culture, Social Influence and the Cultural Embeddedness of Merchant Networks: a reassessment. 13. Postscript.
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