Sheryllynne Haggerty is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Nottingham. Anthony Webster is Head of History at Liverpool John Moores University. Nicholas J. White is Reader in Imperial and Commonwealth History at Liverpool John Moores University

A very valuable overview of Liverpool's role in the Empire

• List of figuresNotes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The empire in one city? Sheryllynne Haggerty, Anthony Webster and Nicholas J. White1. Liverpool, the slave trade and the British-Atlantic empire, c.1750–75, Sheryllynne Haggerty2. Liverpool and the Asian trade, 1800–50: some insights into a provincial British commercial network, Anthony Webster3. ‘Stirring spectacles of cosmopolitan animation’: Liverpool as a diasporic city, 1825–1913, John Herson4 Liverpool and South America, 1850–1930, Rory M. Miller and Robert G. Greenhill5 Collecting empire? African objects, West African trade, and a Liverpool Museum, Zachary Kingdon and Dmitri van den Bersselaar6 Transmitting ideas of empire: representations and celebrations in Liverpool, 1886–1953, Murray Steele7 The maligned, the despised and the ostracised: working-class white women, inter-racial relationships and colonial ideologies in 19th and 20th-century Liverpool, Diane Frost8 Liverpool shipping and the end of empire: the Ocean group in East and Southeast Asia, c. 1945–73, Nicholas J. White9 John Holt & Co. (Liverpool) Ltd. as a contemporary free-standing company, 1945–2006, Stephanie DeckerAfterword: Liverpool and empire – the revolving door? John MacKenzie

Sheryllynne Haggerty is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Nottingham. Anthony Webster is Head of History at Liverpool John Moores University. Nicholas J. White is Reader in Imperial and Commonwealth History at Liverpool John Moores University

A very valuable overview of Liverpool's role in the Empire

• List of figuresNotes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The empire in one city? Sheryllynne Haggerty, Anthony Webster and Nicholas J. White1. Liverpool, the slave trade and the British-Atlantic empire, c.1750–75, Sheryllynne Haggerty2. Liverpool and the Asian trade, 1800–50: some insights into a provincial British commercial network, Anthony Webster3. ‘Stirring spectacles of cosmopolitan animation’: Liverpool as a diasporic city, 1825–1913, John Herson4 Liverpool and South America, 1850–1930, Rory M. Miller and Robert G. Greenhill5 Collecting empire? African objects, West African trade, and a Liverpool Museum, Zachary Kingdon and Dmitri van den Bersselaar6 Transmitting ideas of empire: representations and celebrations in Liverpool, 1886–1953, Murray Steele7 The maligned, the despised and the ostracised: working-class white women, inter-racial relationships and colonial ideologies in 19th and 20th-century Liverpool, Diane Frost8 Liverpool shipping and the end of empire: the Ocean group in East and Southeast Asia, c. 1945–73, Nicholas J. White9 John Holt & Co. (Liverpool) Ltd. as a contemporary free-standing company, 1945–2006, Stephanie DeckerAfterword: Liverpool and empire – the revolving door? John MacKenzie