1st Edition
Networks of Influence and Power Business, Culture and Identity in Liverpool's Merchant Community, c.1800 to 1914
1. Networks of influence and power: the forging of Liverpool’s merchant community
Robert Lee
2. The Mercantile Liverpool Project Database: Sources and Findings
Randolph Cock, John Davies, Robert Lee, and Sari Mäenpää
3. The business environment
Graeme Milne
4. Ethics, trust and reputation
Graeme Milne
5. ‘THE VISIBLE EMBODIMENT OF MODERN COMMERCE’: The development of Liverpool’s commercial centre
Joseph Sharples
6. Kinship, Friendship and Partnership: The social networks of the Liverpool merchant community
Sari Mäenpää
7. Intersecting worlds: women, the family, and merchant culture
Robert Lee and Sari Mäenpää
8. ‘THE MARK OF OPULENCE, TASTE AND SKILL’: Liverpool merchants’ houses, c.1750-c.1900
Joseph Sharples
9. ‘To Purer Air and Brighter Skies’: Escaping from the City
Joseph Sharples and Adrian Jarvis
10. Suburbanisation, Community Building and the Fragmentation of Business Culture: the impact on Liverpool of residential development on the Wirral
Robert Lee
11. Deconstructing Liverpool’s Merchant Networks: transience, religion, politics and business interests
Robert Lee
12. Associational Culture, Social Influence and the Cultural Embeddedness of Merchant Networks: a reassessment Robert Lee
13. Postscript
Robert Lee
Biography
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.
