Merchant (English Wikipedia)

Olshausen, Eckart; Sonnabend, Holger (2002). Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur Historischen Geographie des Altertums, 7, 1999: zu Wasser und zu Land : Verkehrswege in der antiken Welt (in German). Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-08053-8.
Parker, John Henry (1876). "The Other Forums". The Forum Romanum. Oxford: James Parker & Company. p. 42. Retrieved 29 June 2019. The Forum Boarium was the cattle-market or Smithfield of ancient Rome [...].
Shaw, Eric H. (2016). "2: Ancient and medieval marketing". In Jones, D.G. Brian; Tadajewski, Mark (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Marketing History. Routledge Companions. London: Routledge. p. 24. ISBN 9781134688685. Retrieved 3 January 2017. Perhaps the only substantiated type of retail marketing practice that evolved from Neolithic times to the present was the itinerant tradesman (also known as peddler, packman or chapman). These forerunners of travelling salesmen roamed from village to village bartering stone axes in exchange for salt or other goods (Dixon, 1975).
Bintliff, J., "Going to Market in Antiquity," In Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur Historischen Geographie des Altertums, Eckart Olshausen and Holger Sonnabend (eds), Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2002, p. 229, https://books.google.com/books?id=IAMK1952av4C : "The kind of model that Morley and other specialists in Greco-Roman marketing have been developing [...] sees the local market-town as primarily serving local peasantry. Here they unload their small surplus and purchase minor amounts of farm equipment and luxuries for their barns and homes; some of their needs are already met through travelling pedlars and non-urban periodic fairs held at long intervals. Major producers – the great estates – would be attractive enough foci for merchants to consider travelling directly to purchase commercially-focussed harvests 'at the farm gate', and some landowners were wealthy enough to handle their own distribution to urban markets in the country of production and even to other countries. These latter processes are documented both in the ancient sources and archaeological case-studies."
Rebecca M. Seaman, ed. (27 August 2013). Conflict in the Early Americas: An Encyclopedia of the Spanish Empire's Aztec, Incan and Mayan Conquests. Abc-Clio. p. 375. ISBN 9781598847772.
Southerton, Dale, ed. (15 September 2011). Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. SAGE Publications (published 2011). p. xxx. ISBN 9781452266534. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
Tang Lixing (14 December 2017). Merchants and Society in Modern China: From Guild to Chamber of Commerce. China Perspectives. Routledge (published 2017). ISBN 9781351612968. Retrieved 16 August 2021. We see the permutation and extension of the traditional economic elements in highly planned economy. The anti-commerce policy reached to such an extreme that merchants were dismissed as the capitalist heresy.
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Stobart, Jon (1 September 2005). "Information, Trust and Reputation: Shaping a merchant elite in early 18th-century England". Scandinavian Journal of History. 30 (3–4): 298–307. doi:10.1080/03468750500295786. ISSN 0346-8755.
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Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698. Archived from the original on 16 May 2025. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698. Archived from the original on 16 May 2025. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
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Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698. Archived from the original on 16 May 2025. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
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Stobart, Jon (1 September 2005). "Information, Trust and Reputation: Shaping a merchant elite in early 18th-century England". Scandinavian Journal of History. 30 (3–4): 298–307. doi:10.1080/03468750500295786. ISSN 0346-8755.

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Bakhchinyan, Artsvi (2017). "The Activity of Armenian Merchants in International Trade" (PDF). Regional Routes, Regional Roots? Cross-Border. Patterns of Human Mobility in Eurasia. Hokkaido Slavic-Eurasian Research Center. pp. 23–29. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021. abstract of book chapter Archived 24 August 2024 at the Wayback Machine
Flanders, Judith (10 January 2009). "Opinion | They Broke It". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 31 December 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698. Archived from the original on 16 May 2025. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698. Archived from the original on 16 May 2025. Retrieved 30 March 2025.

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Wilkie, Nancy. "Review of: Taprobane: Ancient Sri Lanka as known to the Greeks and Romans. Indicopleustoi: Archaeologies of the Indian Ocean". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
Flanders, Judith (10 January 2009). "Opinion | They Broke It". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 31 December 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
Smail, John (July 2005). "Credit, Risk, and Honor in Eighteenth-Century Commerce". Journal of British Studies. 44 (3): 439–456. doi:10.1086/429706. ISSN 0021-9371.
Stobart, Jon (1 September 2005). "Information, Trust and Reputation: Shaping a merchant elite in early 18th-century England". Scandinavian Journal of History. 30 (3–4): 298–307. doi:10.1080/03468750500295786. ISSN 0346-8755.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698. Archived from the original on 16 May 2025. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698.
Cutterham, Tom (2018). ""A Very Promising Appearance": Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784–92". The William and Mary Quarterly. 75 (4): 623–650. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.75.4.0623. ISSN 1933-7698. Archived from the original on 16 May 2025. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
Stobart, Jon (1 September 2005). "Information, Trust and Reputation: Shaping a merchant elite in early 18th-century England". Scandinavian Journal of History. 30 (3–4): 298–307. doi:10.1080/03468750500295786. ISSN 0346-8755.

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