Merchants [ Commerce ]
… element of mercantile culture, because a good reputation and good social networks were integral to a merchant’s credit and financial dealings. People > Commerce Mots-clés Commerce Merchants Middling sort North America Politeness A … news and negotiate deals, and the social interactions necessary for this had a key role in the formation of a merchant’s credit. 14 . Natasha Glaisyer, The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720 (Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 2006). In … early modern economy was a system of cultural, as well as material, exchanges in which the central mediating factor was credit or trust’. 15 Credit had a key financial function: to ascertain if someone was a trustworthy lender or …
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