Networks of Influence and Power : Business, Culture and Identity in Liverpool's Merchant Community, c.1800 to 1914 (Paperback)

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