Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port
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Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port
by: Graeme J. Milne
Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port
By Graeme J. Milne
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Number Of Pages: 254
Publication Date: 2000-12-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0853236062
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780853236061
Product Description:
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.
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