The way merchants trade, think about business and represent commerce in art forms define merchant culture. The world between 1500 and 1800 encompassed different

Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the “middling sort,” the group falling between the mass of yeoman farmer

The essays in this volume confront stereotypical images of merchants as men, and sometimes women, who stood outside their cultures, beyond history. Ranging acro

Studies of the British Industrial Revolution and of the Victorian period of economic and social development have until very recently concentrated on British ind

A bold new interpretation of modern history as a struggle between three economic groups We are now living in an age of merchants, but it was not always so. The