This study examines the crucial role of merchants in the rise and decline of New Orleans during the nineteenth century.

One of the first books to focus on a city other than Edo during the Tokugawa era, this work extends our understanding of Japanese urban life during that period.

This fascinating chronicle of the world's great financial families offers candid profiles of the personalities behind seven legendary banking houses: Hambros, w

A new history of English trade and empire—revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain In the century follow

"This book examines the ascendancy and decline of the British merchant banking industry over the last 200 years. It illustrates the central role these instituti