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In Trade: Wealthy Business Families in Glasgow and Liverpool, 1870-1930

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This dissertation provides an account of the richest people in Glasgow and Liverpool at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. It focuses on those in shipping, trade, and shipbuilding, who had global interests and amassed large fortunes. It examines the transition away from family business...

Keyword:

Glasgow, Family, Britain, Business, and Liverpool

Subject:

History

Creator:

Emma Elizabeth Goldsmith

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

01/11/2019

Date Modified:

01/30/2019

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Myth and the Modern Problem: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain

Description:

This dissertation, "Myth and the Modern Problem: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain," argues that a widespread phenomenon best described as "mythic thinking" emerged in the early twentieth century as way for a variety of thinkers and key cultural groups to frame and articulate their anxieties about, and their responses to,...

Keyword:

twentieth century, intellectuals, modernity, Britain, and myth

Subject:

History

Creator:

Matthew Kane Sterenberg

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

08/30/2018

Date Modified:

08/30/2018

Date Created:

2007-12-10

Resource Type:

Dissertation