The Romance of Modern Commerce

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Excerpt from The Romance of Modern Commerce: A Popular Account of the Production of Cereals, Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Tobacco, Cotton, Silk, Wool, Timber, Cattle, Oils, Furs, Precious Stones, &C., &C., &C, In the later internal struggles in Britain for liberty and 'progress it was the commercial class in the towns which decided the victory. On the Continent also the in¿uence of commerce was so great that prominent ports and cities were able to throw off allegiance to kings, princes and emperors and establish themselves as independent municipalities or states, while forming international alliances like the Hanseatic League. In commerce the German emperors found a grave and modern citizenship a cradle.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.