Liverpool, 1660-1750
People, Prosperity and Power
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
224 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2006
Liverpool, 1660–1750 explores the demographic, economic, social, and political structures which made this British port city one of the world’s greatest metropolises. Liverpool was one of the fastest-growing and most rapidly developing cities in the world from the late 1600s through the 1900s, but despite this fact little research has been done either on the characteristics of Liverpool’s population at the beginning of the boom or of its social structure. Now, for the first time, this study examines Liverpool’s entire social stratum, from enterprising merchants to the humble shipwrights and craftsmen usually hidden from the history books.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1. Contexts: The Emergence of an Early Modern Port
2. Population and Demography
3. Occupation: Structure, Mobility and Succession
4. Family and Friends: Inheritance Strategies in a Mobile Population
5. Government
6. Politics
Conclusion
Appendices
1. Sources and Methods
2. Probate Listing
3. Overall Sample Sizes
Bibliography
Index
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