Author: Peter Earle
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781388776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The book personalizes the history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a port by focussing on the activities of three generations of one very successful merchant family.
The Earles of Liverpool
Author: Peter Earle
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781388776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The book personalizes the history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a port by focussing on the activities of three generations of one very successful merchant family.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781388776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The book personalizes the history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a port by focussing on the activities of three generations of one very successful merchant family.
The Earles of Liverpool
Author: Peter Earle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781381739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a great port, from 1688 to 1840. The focus is on six members of this successful family, John who came to Liverpool as apprentice to a merchant in 1688, his three sons, Ralph, Thomas and William, who all became merchants specializing in different branches of the trade of the port, and William's two sons, another Thomas and another William, who consolidated the fortunes of the family and began the process of converting their wealth into gentility. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical, and the aim throughout has been to make the book entertaining as well as informative. Where sources permit, the book describes the businesses run by these men, often in considerable detail. Trading in slaves was an important part of the business of three of them, but they and other members of the family also engaged in a variety of other trades, such as the import-export business with Leghorn (Livorno) in Italy, fishing in Newfoundland and the Shetland Islands, the wine and fruit trades of Spain, Portugal and the Azores, the import of raw cotton for the industries of the Industrial Revolution and the Russia trade. Other family interests included privateering, art collection and the trade in art, a sugar plantation in Guyana, and the emigrant trade. While the book is mainly a work of economic history, there is also much on the merchants' wives and families and on the social history of both Liverpool and Livorno.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781381739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a great port, from 1688 to 1840. The focus is on six members of this successful family, John who came to Liverpool as apprentice to a merchant in 1688, his three sons, Ralph, Thomas and William, who all became merchants specializing in different branches of the trade of the port, and William's two sons, another Thomas and another William, who consolidated the fortunes of the family and began the process of converting their wealth into gentility. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical, and the aim throughout has been to make the book entertaining as well as informative. Where sources permit, the book describes the businesses run by these men, often in considerable detail. Trading in slaves was an important part of the business of three of them, but they and other members of the family also engaged in a variety of other trades, such as the import-export business with Leghorn (Livorno) in Italy, fishing in Newfoundland and the Shetland Islands, the wine and fruit trades of Spain, Portugal and the Azores, the import of raw cotton for the industries of the Industrial Revolution and the Russia trade. Other family interests included privateering, art collection and the trade in art, a sugar plantation in Guyana, and the emigrant trade. While the book is mainly a work of economic history, there is also much on the merchants' wives and families and on the social history of both Liverpool and Livorno.
Liverpool Prints and Documents
Author: Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
History and Genealogy of the Earles of Secaucus
Author: Isaac Newton Earle
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
Author: William Farrer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 2430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 2430
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
Author: Royal Agricultural Society of England
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Liverpool's Legion of Honour
Author: B. Guinness Orchard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Notices of about 2000 contemporaries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Notices of about 2000 contemporaries.
Memorials of Liverpool, Historical and Topographical: Topographical
Author: Sir James Allanson Picton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Memorials of Liverpool, Historical and Topographical
Author: Sir James Allanson Picton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description