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Presents the text of a petition written by London merchants in 1775 urging British reconciliation with its American colonies. Large number of resources involved in trade with the colonies; Effect of the American embargo on British goods.

Merchants --- History.

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Du poids des denrées à la superficie des champs, de la valeur des monnaies aux dimensions des corps, la mesure occupe une place centrale dans l'univers médiéval pour lequel « tout est proportion ». C'est donc à ce thème majeur et à son actualité dans les recherches en cours que le XLIIIe Congrès de la Société des historiens médiévistes de l'Enseignement supérieur public, réuni à Tours en juin 2012, a choisi de se consacrer. Vingt-cinq communications issues de ces échanges en révèlent la dimension plurielle, recouvrant par l'exemple les domaines multiples où s'exerce la quantification : économie, démographie et sociologie, culture et science, cartographie et géométrie, danse ou alimentation. Les voies d'entrée dans ces domaines ne sont pas moins nombreuses : métrologie, numismatique, lexicologie, archivistique, codicologie, archéologie, etc. Ces approches croisées donnent ainsi à relire les méthodes mises en œuvre, à prendre aussi la mesure du travail des historiens et des chantiers à venir.

Medievalism. --- Cartography. --- Merchants.

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Mrs. Millwood is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, but London gives her no means of support except to seduce men. Love for her leads eighteen-year-old Barnwell to deceit, theft, and murder. "What are your laws," Mrs. Millwood asks, "but the fool's wisdom and the coward's valor, the instrument and screen of all your villainies by which you punish in others what you act out yourselves, had you been in their circumstances? The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself, had he been poor. Thus you go on deceiving and being deceived, harassing, plaguing, and destroying one another, but women are your universal prey." First performed in 1731, The London Merchant became on of the most popular plays of the century. A chronicler of the age, Theophilus Cibber called it "almost a new species of tragedy.".

Apprentices -- Drama.. --- London (England) -- Drama.. --- Merchants -- Drama. --- Merchants --- London (England)

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This book presents twelve essays by historian David M. Williams, in order to pay tribute to his career. The essays stretch from 1807 through to the end of the nineteenth century, and address both economic and social themes. Topics include maritime trade, deployment of merchant ships, the state regulations concerning shipping, shipwrecks and loss of life, passenger cargoes, slavery, cotton, timber and coffee trades, and the working conditions of seamen over the course of the century. The plight of the maritime labourer is at the core of this collection. The essays primarily focus on British shipping, and firmly places it within an international context. The book is introduced by Lars U. Scholl, followed by two tributes to Williams' career, one by Peter N. Davies, the other by Lewis R. Fischer. Scholl concludes the volume with a thorough bibliography of Williams' maritime writings: books, chapters, and articles.

Merchant marine --- Merchants --- History. --- Businesspeople --- Commerce

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What impact did the cultural origins and religious backgrounds of the merchants in the early modern period have on their business activities? How did these people manage to integrate themselves into the foreign societies within which they lived and worked? In this book Jorun Poettering examines the circumstances of the merchants who traded between Hamburg and Portugal in the seventeenth century. Her study offers new insights into the history of migration and intercultural encounter as world became more interconnected.

Merchants --- Businesspeople --- History --- E-books --- Commerce --- 17th Century. --- Hamburg. --- Merchants. --- Portugal.