Browsing Master's Theses by Subject "18th century"

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Irish Maritime Trade in the Eighteenth Century: a Study in Patterns of Trade, Market Structures, and Merchant Communities

Cheer, Karen A (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Ireland has a centuries-long history of maritime and economic interaction with Great Britain and other more distant communities on the Atlantic rim. In the last forty years of academic writing on the main themes of Ireland's ...
'To the Curious Enquirer': Depictions of Pacific Peoples in Popular Illustrated Books from Paris and London c.1775-1810

Morrell, Vivienne Ruth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This study considers a range of illustrated encyclopaedias published in London and Paris in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries depicting peoples of the Pacific or Oceania. Using a framework of curiosity, ...
William Davenport, the Slave Trade, and Merchant Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century Liverpool

Radburn, Nicholas James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis examines the business history of William Davenport (1725-1797), a Liverpool slave trading merchant from 1748 until 1786. Through an examination of a recently discovered collection of Davenport's business papers ...