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Instead of mercantile competition with Europe and America, Chinese capitalists have been looking to the developing world for bigger opportunities.
For landed and mercantile elites obtained, as a result of colonial expansion, by the 1830s, a growing measure of control over labour.
These centres attracted people from far and near, and provided ample opportunities for the mercantile and artisan groups.
The need to sell their cloth on a regular basis led weavers into complex relations with mercantile actors.
The former has four sub-divisions: patrimonial (king-chief), feudal (noble-serf), mercantile (trader-customer) and saintly (religious leader-follower) (ibid.).
This set of attitudes seemed to derive, to some extent, from these businesses' early mercantile origins.
Will it lean in favor of the landed interest, or the monied interest, or the mercantile interest, or the manufacturing interest?
Among the wealthy, both mercantile and landed, women's work was essentially organizational and administrative.
All can be linked to the growth and expression of agrarian and mercantile capitalism as practice, culture and ideology.
