Further your research

Books

Alison G. Olsen, 'Making the Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups, 1690-1790', (Harvard University Press, 1992)

Anthony Howe, 'Free Trade and Liberal England 1846-1946', (Oxford University Press, 1997)

Andrew Marrison, 'British Business and Protection, 1903-1932', (Oxford University Press, 1996)

G.J. Milne, 'North East England 1850-1914: the dynamic of a maritime-industrial region', (Boydell, Woodbridge, 2006)

John W. Young, 'Britain and European Unity, 1945-1999', (Macmillan, London, 2nd edn. 2000)

Articles

Kenneth Morgan, ‘Mercantilism and the British Empire, 1688-1815' in Donald Winch (ed.) The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914, (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 165-92

Sarah Palmer, ‘Ports' in Martin Daunton (ed.) The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, 1840-1950, (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 133-50.

F. Neal, ‘Liverpool Shipping in the Early 19th Century' in J. R. Harris (ed.) Liverpool and Merseyside: Essays in the Economic History of the Port and its hinterland, (London, Cass, 1969), pp. 147-81.