The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760-1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15018-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Atlantic World

This book uses the case studies of Liverpool and Philadelphia to investigate the nature of the British-Atlantic trading community between 1760 and 1810. By using a wide definition of the term ‘trader’, this work stresses the role of lesser traders, including women, in the distribution of goods around the Atlantic. Through comparing and contrasting these trading communities, it highlights the different structures of the economies of these cities during this period of conflict and change. However, by using the concepts of networks of people, credit and goods, this book also demonstrates how a common business mentalité inextricably bound these trading communities together, even as Philadelphia struggled to free itself from the legacy of its colonial past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haggerty, Sherryllynne

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Maps, Figures and Tables

Introduction: Men and Women of the British-Atlantic Trading Community

1. Traders and the British-Atlantic Economy
2. What is a Trading Community?
3. The Trading Communities of Liverpool and Philadelphia
4. People, Trust and Information
5. Finance and Failure
6. Distributing the Goods of the Consumer Revolution
7. Risk and Risk Management

Conclusion: One Trading Community

Appendix A. The Trade Directories and the Database
Appendix B. Categories of Trader Included in Each Trading Sector

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sheryllynne Haggerty, Ph.D. (2002) in History, University of Liverpool, is Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Nottingham. She has published on the trading communities and business culture of Liverpool and Philadelphia in the eighteenth century.