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 … 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 Johnson, A … 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 Town, 1660-1730 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989); …
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