The life cycle of a metropolitan business network: Liverpool 1750-1810

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-206

  Haggerty, John ^a   Haggerty, Sheryllynne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Liverpool; Merchants; Metropolitan business networks; Trade; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954807080     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: 10902457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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