UnderstandingSociety: Merchant capital

If we now look back on European history from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, this assessment seems badly wrong as an historical observation. Merchants and their companies played key roles in the establishment of a world trading .... Twitter feed. This is the twitter feed for items of news and politics that are relevant to UnderstandingSociety. Topics include Burma, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, China, contentious politics, human rights, and social justice. ...