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At Home on the World Markets: Dutch International Trading Companies from the 16th Century Until the Present by Joost Jonker, The Dutch economy has relied on trade for centuries. During the seventeenth century the Netherlands experienced a Golden Age built largely on commercial enterprise, business business business economy home trade and trade continues to be the golden link in the supply chain from producers to consumers. Yet we know very little about the business of trade business business business economy home trade and the people involved in it. What was the nature of their work, business business business economy home trade and how did it evolve through the ages? In the lavishly illustrated At Home on the World Markets Joost Jonker business business business economy home trade and Keetie Sluyterman look at mercantile dynasties -- such as the Trips business business business economy home trade and the Van Eeghens -- business business business economy home trade and companies -- such as the famous Dutch East Indian Company VOC business business business economy home trade and the modern trading company Hagemeyer -- that have been largely unstudied. They describe the evolution of a unique economic sector that occupies a key position in the supply chain from producers to consumers.
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Merchant Enterprise in Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I by Stanley Chapman, Studies of the British Industrial Revolution business business business economy home trade and of the Victorian period of economic business business business economy home trade and social development have until very recently concentrated on British industries business business business economy home trade and industrial regions, while commerce business business business economy home trade and finance, business business business economy home trade and particularly that of London, have been substantially neglected. This has distorted our view of the process of change because financial services business business business economy home trade and much trade continued to be centred on the metropolis, business business business economy home trade and the south-east region never lost its position at the top of the national league of wealth. This is a pioneer survey of the mercantile sector of the economy from the end of the eighteenth century to World War I. It complements Dr. Chapman's The Rise of Merchant Banking (1984), concentrating on the various ways in which British merchants responded to the unprecedented opportunities of the Industrial Revolution business business business economy home trade and the growth of the British Empire. The main conclusion is that industrial entrepreneurs contributed only briefly to merchant ventures, business business business economy home trade and that with limited success. Rather did the established merchant community evolve its own new forms of enterprise to meet the changing opportunities: the 'new frontier' merchant networks of the Atlantic economy, the international houses in continental trade, the agency houses in the Far East, business business business economy home trade and the home trade houses dominating the domestic market. These resilient organisations enabled the British merchant enterprise to survive longer business business business economy home trade and in greater strength than in other Western economies.
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