Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool
Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
254 pages
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© 2000
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 trading community that had to work in this complex business environment. Shipowners and merchants confronted difficult choices, whether in adopting the new steamship technology, diversifying into new commodity trades, competing for government contracts, or managing their port through the elected Mersey Docks & Harbour Board.
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
8. Constraint and opportunity: Government contracting
9. Interest, faction and port management
10. Conclusion: Trading in interesting times
Notes on sources
Notes on abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
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
8. Constraint and opportunity: Government contracting
9. Interest, faction and port management
10. Conclusion: Trading in interesting times
Notes on sources
Notes on abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
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