Visual analytics of an eighteenth-century business network

Haggerty, J; Haggerty, S

Abstract

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.

Citation

Haggerty, J., & Haggerty, S. (2010). Visual analytics of an eighteenth-century business network. Enterprise and Society, 11(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khp051

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2010
• Deposit Date: Oct 11, 2011
• Journal: Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History
• Print ISSN: 1467-2227
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-25
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khp051