Commerce and Culture

Robert Lee is Chaddock Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Liverpool, UK.

• General Editor’s Preface, Robert Lee; Chapter 1 Commerce and Culture: A Critical Assessment of the Role of Cultural Factors in Commerce and Trade from c.1750 to the Early Twentieth Century, Robert Lee; Chapter 2 From Wolverhampton to Calcutta: The Low Origins of Merchant Enterprise, Andrew Popp; Chapter 3 The Australian Company: Operations and Finances, Michael Nix; Chapter 4 Bridges to the East: European Merchants and Business Practices in India and China, Christof Dejung; Chapter 5 ‘To save the commercial community of New York’: Panicked Business Elites in 1837, Jessica Lepler; Chapter 6 The Entrepreneurial Activity of Dimitrios and Stephanos Manos in Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Ikaros Madouvalos; Chapter 7 The Rise and Fall of Friedrich Wilhelm Keutgen, Bremens Consul in New York, 1859–61, Lars Maischak; Chapter 8 The Role of the Business Elite in the Social, Economic and Cultural Life of the Russian Provincial City, Elena Apkarimova; Chapter 9 The Commercial Culture of Spiritual Kinship amongst German Immigrant Merchants in London, c.1750–1830, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl; Chapter 10 To Have and to Hold? Marital Connections and Family Relationships in Salem, Massachusetts, 1755–1810, Lesley Doig; Chapter 11 ‘A most terrific passage’: Putting Faith into Atlantic Steam Navigation, Crosbie Smith;

'... the value of this work lies simply in its rich diversity, extending our knowledge in unexpected ways and into some remote regions of global commerce in the nineteenth century.' European History Quarterly ’... this edited volume is delightful... each piece offers a broadening of horizons and suspense as the authors aim to uncover new material, insights and dispel widely held simplistic/unilinear interpretations on the complex web linking commerce and culture, and the features-cum-roles of business elites...this is a book on transitioning; as such, it is more than successful and deserves a special place in the literature on the evolution of capitalism.’ History