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Universities, Ancient and Modern
Excerpt from Universities, Ancient and Modern: Read Before the Birkenhead Literary and Scientific Society at the Opening of Its Fifty-First Session, on Monday, the 7th October, 1907 The ancient Universities, both of this country and of the continent of Europe, have reached their position and functions in relationship to the thought and intellectual life of the present day, by a long process of evolution, lasting since the medieval times in which most of them began to exist. Without a continued adaptation to environment no institution of civilized man, however powerful, can outlast the passage of centuries. As knowledge increases all our institutions must either become transformed by a gradua...
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Networks of Influence and Power
During the nineteenth century Liverpool became the heart of an international maritime network. As the 'second city' of Empire, its merchants and shipowners operated within a transnational commercial and financial system, while its trading connections stimulated the development of new markets and their integration within an increasingly global economy. This ground-breaking volume brings together ten original contributions that reflect upon the development of the city's business community from the early-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War with an emphasis on the period from 1851 to 1912. It offers the first detailed analysis of Liverpool's merchant community within a conc...
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