Sheryllynne Haggerty
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheryllynne Haggerty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheryllynne |
| FAMILY NAME | Haggerty |
| SIGNATURE | HAGGERTY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica
Recent work on white women in Jamaica has shown that they were active participants in Jamaica’s slave economy. This article adds to this recent literature through an innovative use of social network analysis (SNA) to examine the credit networks in which women operated in the thriving eighteenth-century British Atlantic town of Kingston, Jamaica. In particular, it uses closeness and centrality measures to quantify the distinctive role that white w…
What’s in a price? The American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American War
This article argues that an embryonic futures market was present in Liverpool during the Anglo-American War. The analysis of a previously unseen data-set of printed Prices Currents has facilitated not only a price series of raw cotton prices, but an in-depth analysis of the ‘construction’ of those raw cotton prices. By positing a definition of an embryonic futures market and then analysing each of the features of a such a market in turn, this stu…
Risk, networks and privateering in Liverpool during the Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763
Privateering has often been portrayed as a particularly risky business. Some historians have posited that it was undertaken only by disreputable merchants, whilst others have argued that profits would not have been made if systems of control had been absent, and that merchants were in fact rational when they invested in privateering. So far, however, no one has sought to gauge or measure the perceived riskiness of privateering by the merchants th…
Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth century: The Bentinck family, 1710–1830s
This paper examines the claims of Eric Williams and the more recent Legacies of British Slave Ownership projects regarding the influence of enslavement in the building of Britain and its empire through a multi-generational study of a leading British elite family, the Bentincks. Using the concept of imperial careering, it charts how four men from this family not typically identified as enslavers or abolitionists were entangled with enslavement in …
Liverpool, the slave trade and the British-Atlantic empire, c. 1750–75
Liverpool's success has often been attributed to, and marred by, its being the leader in the slave trade after 1750. Thomas Case provides an illuminating case study of Liverpool's relationship with Britain's Atlantic empire. Despite his involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, amongst other things, Case was declared bankrupt in 1778. Case's involvement in the slave trade appears to have begun in 1754 when he went into partnership with Nichol…
Networking with a Network: The Liverpool African Committee 1750–1810
Historians are increasingly using networks as an analytical framework. However, recent research has stressed the inherent problems with networks, including networking institutions. Historians therefore have to consider why and in what ways actors do, or did, engage with networks. This article posits a novel interdisciplinary methodology by bringing together regression analysis, visual analytics, and history to analyze actors’ relationships with a…
The capital and the colonies: London and the Atlantic economy 1660–1700
The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
You Promise Well and Perform as Badly: ” The Failure of the “Implicit Contract of Family” in the Scottish Atlantic
The life cycle of a metropolitan business network: Liverpool 1750–1810
Trade and trust in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world
Enterprising women and shipping in the nineteenth century
Miss Fan can tun her han!” Female traders in eighteenth-century British-American Atlantic port cities
She washi off an scrubi off, she Dragi dunga gate, She stock it our wid half her lunch An start fe speculate! Miss Fan described in the quote above epitomises the tenacity and versatility of women in the early-modern Atlantic world. Lack of access to capital meant that women often had to be extremely entrepreneurial in their approaches to commerce. Half her lunch represents that small capital, but with hard work, women could manage to speculate s…
Visual Analytics of an Eighteenth-Century Business Network
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. R…
Risk and risk management in the Liverpool slave trade
The profits of the Liverpool slave trade are infamous, if somewhat more realistically represented in recent literature. Contemporaries and historians have posited that these higher profits were required to entice merchants into the trade because of the higher risks. However, there is very little work which investigates whether the risks of the slave trade really were higher than other similar opportunities. This article uses the case study of Liv…
The Business of Everyday Life: Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, c. 1600–1900 by Beverly Lemire
The empire in one city: Liverpool's inconvenient imperial past
From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referred to as the ‘second city of the empire’. Yet, the role of Liverpool within the British imperial system and the impact on the city of its colonial connections remain underplayed in recent writing on both Liverpool and the empire. However, ‘inconvenient’ this may prove, this specially-commissioned collection of essays demonstrates that the imperial dime…
The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth‐Century Britain edited by Isabelle Baudino, Jacques Carré and Cécile Révauger
Risk and Risk Management
A s has been highlighted in this and other research-focused publications, one trendy phrase making rounds for the last several years within the clinical research enterprise is “risk management,” which has of late been tied to the even hotter topic and practice of risk-based monitoring (RBM).
What is a Trading Community?
One Trading Community
Preliminary Material
Finance and Failure
The Trading Communities of Liverpool and Philadelphia
Traders and the British-Atlantic Economy
The life cycle of a metropolitan business network: Liverpool 1750–1810
Visual Analytics of an Eighteenth-Century Business Network
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. R…
The empire in one city: Liverpool's inconvenient imperial past
From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referred to as the ‘second city of the empire’. Yet, the role of Liverpool within the British imperial system and the impact on the city of its colonial connections remain underplayed in recent writing on both Liverpool and the empire. However, ‘inconvenient’ this may prove, this specially-commissioned collection of essays demonstrates that the imperial dime…
Networking with a Network: The Liverpool African Committee 1750–1810
Historians are increasingly using networks as an analytical framework. However, recent research has stressed the inherent problems with networks, including networking institutions. Historians therefore have to consider why and in what ways actors do, or did, engage with networks. This article posits a novel interdisciplinary methodology by bringing together regression analysis, visual analytics, and history to analyze actors’ relationships with a…
Miss Fan can tun her han!” Female traders in eighteenth-century British-American Atlantic port cities
She washi off an scrubi off, she Dragi dunga gate, She stock it our wid half her lunch An start fe speculate! Miss Fan described in the quote above epitomises the tenacity and versatility of women in the early-modern Atlantic world. Lack of access to capital meant that women often had to be extremely entrepreneurial in their approaches to commerce. Half her lunch represents that small capital, but with hard work, women could manage to speculate s…
Risk and risk management in the Liverpool slave trade
The profits of the Liverpool slave trade are infamous, if somewhat more realistically represented in recent literature. Contemporaries and historians have posited that these higher profits were required to entice merchants into the trade because of the higher risks. However, there is very little work which investigates whether the risks of the slave trade really were higher than other similar opportunities. This article uses the case study of Liv…
The structure of the Philadelphia trading community on the transition from colony to state
In 1785 the first Philadelphia trade directory was published; a reflection of the pride and confidence of the city's people on Independence. This article uses the directory to detail a far wider trading community than simply elite (male) merchants. By comparing the Philadelphia trading community with its British counterpart, Liverpool, it is argued that in 1785 Philadelphia still had the economy of a colonial port. Importantly, because of this, i…
You Promise Well and Perform as Badly: ” The Failure of the “Implicit Contract of Family” in the Scottish Atlantic
What’s in a price? The American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American War
This article argues that an embryonic futures market was present in Liverpool during the Anglo-American War. The analysis of a previously unseen data-set of printed Prices Currents has facilitated not only a price series of raw cotton prices, but an in-depth analysis of the ‘construction’ of those raw cotton prices. By positing a definition of an embryonic futures market and then analysing each of the features of a such a market in turn, this stu…
Risk, networks and privateering in Liverpool during the Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763
Privateering has often been portrayed as a particularly risky business. Some historians have posited that it was undertaken only by disreputable merchants, whilst others have argued that profits would not have been made if systems of control had been absent, and that merchants were in fact rational when they invested in privateering. So far, however, no one has sought to gauge or measure the perceived riskiness of privateering by the merchants th…
The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
Risk and Risk Management
A s has been highlighted in this and other research-focused publications, one trendy phrase making rounds for the last several years within the clinical research enterprise is “risk management,” which has of late been tied to the even hotter topic and practice of risk-based monitoring (RBM).
What is a Trading Community?
One Trading Community
Preliminary Material
Finance and Failure
The Trading Communities of Liverpool and Philadelphia
Traders and the British-Atlantic Economy
Appendix A: The Trade Directories and the Database
Appendix B: Categories of Trader Included in Each Trading Sector
Index of Names
Introduction: Men and Women of the British-Atlantic Trading Community
Index of Subjects
Distributing the Goods of the Consumer Revolution
People, Trust and Information
Abbreviations
The Atlantic World
The structure of the Philadelphia trading community on the transition from colony to state
In 1785 the first Philadelphia trade directory was published; a reflection of the pride and confidence of the city's people on Independence. This article uses the directory to detail a far wider trading community than simply elite (male) merchants. By comparing the Philadelphia trading community with its British counterpart, Liverpool, it is argued that in 1785 Philadelphia still had the economy of a colonial port. Importantly, because of this, i…
The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth‐Century Britain edited by Isabelle Baudino, Jacques Carré and Cécile Révauger
The Business of Everyday Life: Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, c. 1600–1900 by Beverly Lemire
The empire in one city: Liverpool's inconvenient imperial past
From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referred to as the ‘second city of the empire’. Yet, the role of Liverpool within the British imperial system and the impact on the city of its colonial connections remain underplayed in recent writing on both Liverpool and the empire. However, ‘inconvenient’ this may prove, this specially-commissioned collection of essays demonstrates that the imperial dime…
Miss Fan can tun her han!” Female traders in eighteenth-century British-American Atlantic port cities
She washi off an scrubi off, she Dragi dunga gate, She stock it our wid half her lunch An start fe speculate! Miss Fan described in the quote above epitomises the tenacity and versatility of women in the early-modern Atlantic world. Lack of access to capital meant that women often had to be extremely entrepreneurial in their approaches to commerce. Half her lunch represents that small capital, but with hard work, women could manage to speculate s…
Visual Analytics of an Eighteenth-Century Business Network
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. R…
Risk and risk management in the Liverpool slave trade
The profits of the Liverpool slave trade are infamous, if somewhat more realistically represented in recent literature. Contemporaries and historians have posited that these higher profits were required to entice merchants into the trade because of the higher risks. However, there is very little work which investigates whether the risks of the slave trade really were higher than other similar opportunities. This article uses the case study of Liv…
Trade and trust in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world
Enterprising women and shipping in the nineteenth century
Historical Economic and Social Studies (23 works) · History (22 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (18 works) · History (17 works) · Business (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works)