Merchants [ Commerce ]
… remote countries’. 1 Not only did the variety of goods they traded vary, but their social background did too. Merchant life could be highly mobile with many merchants moving between town and country and towards London or other port cities … life of the merchant required sustained engagement with the many different modes of sociability that were embedded in everyday urban life. 1 . N. Bailey, A Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 3rd ed. (London: Darby, 1726); Samuel … , Joseph Addison discussed how global commerce; or rather ‘traffic’ as many contemporaries called it, enriched the everyday life of the nation: 11 . Neil McKendrick, ‘The Consumer Revolution of Eighteenth-Century England’, in Neil …
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