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Visual Analytics of an Eighteenth-Century Business Network

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  • Haggerty, John
  • Haggerty, Sheryllynne

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A social network consists of a finite set or sets of actors and the relation or relations defined upon them. The presence of relational information is a critical and defining feature of a social network. Historians have become increasingly interested in networks as an analytical tool for eighteenth-century commerce. In much of the historiography these networks are treated as inherently beneficial for the wider economy and the actors themselves. Recently, however, historians have started to problematize networks and to complicate our understanding of them. Indeed, the quote above stresses that a network is not simply the actors within it, but the relationships between them. Realizing this facilitates an understanding of how such networks function.

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  • Haggerty, John & Haggerty, Sheryllynne, 2010. "Visual Analytics of an Eighteenth-Century Business Network," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 11(1), pages 1-25, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:entsoc:v:11:y:2010:i:01:p:1-25_00
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    1. Husain, Tehreem & Buchnea, Emily, 2024. "Agents, brokerage and Argentinian railways 1880–1905," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 125980, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Haggerty, John & Haggerty, Sheryllynne, 2011. "The life cycle of a metropolitan business network: Liverpool 1750-1810," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 48(2), pages 189-206, April.
    3. Buchnea, Emily & Elsahn, Ziad, 2022. "Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(5).

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