Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England
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Is Merchants Taking Advantage of Their Unique Status?
Early modern merchants were inspired by a huge range of different things. The sense of the exotic wonder is really important, and i think that's something we see especially in the way in which merchants select which trades they're going to take part in or where they 're going to send their ships. So while there is a desire for profit and need to maintain their livelihoods, the way inWhich they go about that is shaped by a myriad of other ways of understanding and viewing the world.
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