Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port
Graeme Milne
Abstract
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 Me ... More
Keywords: business culture, port economy, trading community, steamship technology, commodity trades, government contracts
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2000 | Print ISBN-13: 9780853236061 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846314261 |
