For landed and mercantile elites obtained, as a result of colonial expansion, by the 1830s, a growing measure of control over labour.
Will it lean in favor of the landed interest, or the monied interest, or the mercantile interest, or the manufacturing interest?
These centres attracted people from far and near, and provided ample opportunities for the mercantile and artisan groups.
They were part and parcel of the mercantile world system.
Globalisation in the form of mercantile trade throughout these regions is also likely to have had a significant impact on the language of business.
This set of attitudes seemed to derive, to some extent, from these businesses' early mercantile origins.
It may be said that the outcome is the same - the persistence of mercantile credit - but that confuses causes and consequences.
The development of the urban system was thus largely dependent on the territorial and mercantile rights embedded in the market town charters.
