Liverpool, 1660-1750: People, Prosperity and Power

Liverpool, 1660–1750 explores the demographic, economic, social, and political structures which made this British port city one of the world’s greatest metropolises. Liverpool was one of the fastest-growing  and most rapidly developing cities in the world from the late 1600s through the 1900s, but despite this fact little research has been done either on the characteristics of Liverpool’s population at the beginning of the boom or of its social structure. Now, for the first time, this study examines Liverpool’s entire social stratum, from enterprising merchants to the humble shipwrights and craftsmen usually hidden from the history books.