The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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Some of the largest English merchants had branches or agencies in the colonies . The planters secured advances from the merchants against the produce before it was shipped . If the crop was a poor one , or prices fell in the home ...
Some of the largest English merchants had branches or agencies in the colonies . The planters secured advances from the merchants against the produce before it was shipped . If the crop was a poor one , or prices fell in the home ...
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had to be shipped through the merchant , either in the merchant's own vessels or in vessels chartered by him . ... It is not surprising to find merchants admitting frankly that their chief incentive in advancing money to the planters ...
had to be shipped through the merchant , either in the merchant's own vessels or in vessels chartered by him . ... It is not surprising to find merchants admitting frankly that their chief incentive in advancing money to the planters ...
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From the ' fifties , when merchants were taking over trade , down to the slump after the Great War was the great period of the English merchant houses , and among them few were wealthier or more important than the East Indian .
From the ' fifties , when merchants were taking over trade , down to the slump after the Great War was the great period of the English merchant houses , and among them few were wealthier or more important than the East Indian .
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