Rathbones of Liverpool, 1845-1873
Details:
- Author(s) Marriner, Sheila
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1961
- Pages 246pp; illus
- Publisher Liverpool University Press
- Place Published Liverpool
Topics:
- Name Finance of production & trade
- Name Management practices
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly study. It is 'not a house history' but a study of merchant finance and commercial organisation in the third quarter of the 19th century, dealing with such issues as changing structure of trade; effects of economic crises on policy; managerial problems; trade finance with USA and China; etc. Structured in three parts, viz: 1] 'Growth and diversification of Rathbones' business interests' - 'Impetus to expand' / 'Westwards to America' / 'Eastwards to China' / 'Ships and produce' / 'Universal merchants'; 2] 'Commercial organisation' - 'Risk and initiative' / 'American agencies' / 'China houses' / 'Markets in Liverpool and London' / 'Business efficiency' / 'Commercial crises and business organisation'; 3] 'The financial background' - 'Dollars and sterling' / 'Tea, silk and currency' / 'Exchange markets in China' / 'The employment of capital'. Appendices include: ' Summary of ... earnings from various sources' / Rathbone family tree / 'Profit and loss accounts of New York agency