Rick Atkinson

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.

American Author

Henry Morton Stanley

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

Welsh Explorer

Lord Byron

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

British Poet

Alain de Botton

Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

English Writer

James Stephens

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.

Irish Poet

Andre Balazs

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

American Businessman

John James Audubon

American Scientist

Use 'mercantile' in formal discussions or writings about business and trade.

Business Context

'Mercantile' often references past eras when trade was a dominant societal aspect.

Historical Tone

'Mercantile' is often used within specific business-related fields like economics or history.

Specific Jargon

'Mercantile' as a noun is archaic, referring to traders in historical contexts.

Historical Figure

Today, 'merchant' or 'trader' are more common than 'mercantile' for modern businesspersons.

Not Modern

'Mercantile' can evoke a classic and authoritative feel in historical fiction or analysis.

Historical Novels

 inherited the mercantile business at her father's death by the time of the Civil War Lizzie was in her mid forties a small dowdy spinster with dotting blue eyes in seemingly nervous disposition she was a staunch unionist who refused

James Robertson: The...

 The city generated its riches by controlling the sources and trade of the most prized gold, ivory, and copper. With this mercantile power, it was able to extend its sphere of influence across continents,

Who built Great...

 mercantile it was based on the fur trade our rivers and lakes were our highways we traveled by canoe we were not settlers and so we encountered the first nations of the land we needed them and