In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked'merely for money'. However, rather
than being a criticism, this was recognition of the important commercial role that merchants …

In this article we examine the relationship among business groups (BGs) in Chile in the long
run, focusing on the relations between the state, viewed as a BG, and privately-owned BGs …

This article argues that entrepreneurs, not governments or markets, shaped globalization
during the early nineteenth century. The article concentrates on the trading and financial …

This article discusses the relational and rhetorical foundations of more than 300 first letters
sent in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by merchant or banking houses based …

This paper deals with the impact of 'early'nineteenth-century globalization (c. 1815–1860) on
foreign trade in the Southern Cone (SC). Most of the evidence is drawn from bilateral trades …

London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused
by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American …

This article deals with Huth & Co.'s activities in Chile during the 1820s-1850s. Huth was the
only London merchant-banker that decided to go global before 1850, and also the only one …

Based on census records (both of total population and commercial-industrial), and an
extensive review and synthesis of the secondary literature, this article analyses the …

Abstract Hacia 1850, en Buenos Aires, la costura era una actividad que realizaban
diferentes personas en sitios diversos. Podía ser parte de un oficio artesanal, una labor …