The movement first opened a consumer's cooperative, then it began to sell produce straight in the provincial markets, in effect cutting off the merchant elite.

Ackroyd details More's enmeshment in the power structure of London's merchant elite and the country's legal system.

The museum offers one of the best glimpses of the opulence enjoyed by Japan's merchant elite, many of whom founded the multinational corporations of today.

The region had very few urban places apart from Charleston, where a merchant elite maintained close connections with nearby plantation society.

The consolidation movement was the work of the merchant elite and progressives, most prominently Andrew Haswell Green.

To make matters worse, the institution, founded in 1804 by New York's merchant elite, had remained a clubby enclave for its descendants.

The development of trade between Europe, the Americas, and the East generated massive profits for a relatively small merchant elite in the European colonial powers.

The Dutch merchant elite began to use London as a new operational base.

Small businessmen and farmers against merchant elites who, as political leaders, are raising property taxes, tariffs and freight rates to raise money for canals.