Routledge Studies in Modern British Hist Networks of Influence and Power: Business, Culture and Identity in Liverpool's Merchant Community, C.1800 to 1914, (Hardcover)

In recent years considerable attention has been paid to the contribution of the business community and the middle class in general to urban development in the nineteenth century. This book represents an important contribution to existing historiography through an exploration of a range of key issues in business, maritime and urban history based on an innovative and path-breaking study of the merchant community in nineteenth-century Liverpool.