Download or read book Merchants in the City of Art written by Anne Louise Schiller and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Merchants in the City of Art, Anne Schiller addresses classic anthropological questions about culture change and places them in a contemporary context, bringing together issues of work, heritage, immigration, and tourism. San Lorenzo, a neighborhood located in the historic centre of the celebrated city of Florence, and home to a market that has existed since before the Renaissance, is in transition. Globalization pressures--specifically international tourism and migration--are forcing changes in the way vendors work, which in turn raises larger questions about identity, authenticity, and heritage. This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors to explore how cultural identities are formed, and how they change, and are negotiated during periods of profound social and economic change."--

Download or read book Merchants in the City of Art written by Anne Louise Schiller and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Lorenzo neighborhood and its globalized market -- A mercantile neighborhood across time -- Lives and livelihoods on Silver Street -- Into the heart of Florence -- Saving San Lorenzo -- Fiorentinità in a post-Florentine market

Download or read book Merchants in the City of Art written by Anne L. Schiller and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change.

Download or read book City Merchants and the Arts 1670 1720 written by Mireille Galinou and published by Oblong Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Merchants in Motion written by L. Heerink and published by Visionary World Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch photographer Loes Heerink has captured the street vendors of Hanoi from a unique vantage point. The result is this stunning collection of colours and shapes set against the tarmac grey of the city's roads. Together with short interviews with some of the vendors, Merchants in Motion portrays an essential part of the enduring charm of the Vietnamese capital.

Download or read book Merchants and Masterpieces written by Calvin Tomkins and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Merchant s Tale written by Simon Partner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan’s 1853 “opening” to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and the Meiji Restoration’s reforms. The Merchant’s Tale looks through Chūemon’s eyes at the upheavals of this period. In a narrative history rich in colorful detail, Simon Partner uses the story of an ordinary merchant farmer and its Yokohama setting as a vantage point onto sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. Chūemon, like most newcomers to Yokohama, came in search of economic opportunity. His story sheds light on vital issues in Japan’s modern history, including the legacies of the Meiji Restoration; the East Asian treaty port system; and the importance of everyday life—food, clothing, medicine, and hygiene—for national identity. Centered on an individual, The Merchant’s Tale is also the story of a place. Created under pressure from aggressive foreign powers, Yokohama was the scene of gunboat diplomacy, a connection to global markets, the birthplace of new lifestyles, and the beachhead of Japan’s modernization. Partner’s history of a vibrant meeting place humanizes the story of Japan’s revolutionary 1860s and their profound consequences for Japanese society and culture.

Download or read book The Merchant Houses of Mocha written by Nancy Um and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans in 1635, Mocha's trade turned eastward toward the Indian Ocean and coastal India. Merchants and shipowners from Asian, African, and European shores flocked to the city to trade in Arabian coffee and aromatics, Indian textiles, Asian spices, and silver from the New World. Nancy Um tells how and why Mocha's urban shape and architecture took the forms they did. Mocha was a hub in a great trade network encompassing overseas cities, agricultural hinterlands, and inland market centers. All these connected places, together with the functional demands of commerce in the city, the social stratification of its residents, and the imam's desire for wealth, contributed to Mocha's architectural and urban form. Eventually, in the mid-1800s, the Ottomans regained control over Yemen and abandoned Mocha as their coastal base. Its trade and its population diminished and its magnificent buildings began to crumble, until few traces are left of them today. This book helps bring Mocha to life once again.

Download or read book The Merchants of Light written by Marta Maretich and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Waldo Story The Home of Friendly Merchants written by LaDene Morton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quaint and quirky corner of Kansas City known as Waldo has earned its reputation the hard way through good times and bad since 1841. From its early days as a way station on the Santa Fe Trail, through the dark times in the path of a civil war, from the railroad boom to the Great Depression and right on into the challenges of the modern community, the merchants of in Waldo have played a unique and fascinating role in rooting and nurturing this special, yet very familiar place. Their stories the people, the landmarks, and the special times together make the Waldo Story.

Download or read book The Old Merchants of New York City written by Walter Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Merchants Markets and Exchange in the Pre Columbian World written by Kenn Hirth and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the structure, scale and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands and the central Andes.

Download or read book Merchants of Art 1880 1960 written by Germain Seligman and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Merchants Magazine and Commercial Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Merchants Magazine and Commercial Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hunt s Merchants Magazine and Commercial Review written by Freeman Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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