Merchants [ Commerce ]
… were integral to a merchant’s credit and financial dealings. People > Commerce Keywords Commerce Merchants Middling sort North America Politeness A merchant was ‘a trader or a dealer by wholesale’, especially ‘one who trafficks to remote … quite dramatically. Exports to the East Indies multiplied nearly sevenfold through the period, and exports into North America almost quadrupled. 9 5 . Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial …
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