Download or read book Roads Taken written by Hasia R. Diner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book is the first to tell the remarkable story of the Jewish men who put packs on their backs and traveled forth, house to house, farm to farm, mining camp to mining camp, to sell their goods to peoples across the world. Persistent and resourceful, these peddlers propelled a mass migration of Jewish families out of central and eastern Europe, north Africa, and the Ottoman Empire to destinations as far-flung as the United States, Great Britain, South Africa, and Latin America. Hasia Diner tells the story of millions of discontented young Jewish men who sought opportunity abroad, leaving parents, wives, and sweethearts behind. Wherever they went, they learned unfamiliar languages and customs, endured loneliness, battled the elements, and proffered goods from the metropolis to people of the hinterlands. In the Irish Midlands, the Adirondacks of New York, the mining camps of New South Wales, and so many other places, these traveling men brought change—to themselves and the families who later followed, to the women whose homes and communities they entered, and ultimately to the geography of Jewish history.
Download or read book Regulation of Peddlers written by University of Washington. Bureau of Governmental Research and Services and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulation of Peddlers written by University of Washington. Bureau of Governmental Research and Services and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deaf Peddler written by Dennis S. Buck and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having panhandled as a "deaf" man for 11 years, the author has written a book exposing all the ins and outs of his life exploiting a "disability" to earn hundreds of dollars a day and sheds light on the cultural phenomenon of deaf peddling that thrives today. Illustrations.
Download or read book The Story Peddler written by Lindsay A. Franklin and published by Enclave. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** WINNER: ACFW Carol Award *** *** WINNER: Alliance Award: Readers' Choice *** *** WINNER: Realm Award: Book of the Year 2019 *** *** WINNER: Realm Award: Young Adult *** Selling stories is a deadly business. Tanwen doesn't just tell stories--she weaves them into crystallized sculptures that sell for more than a few bits. But the only way to escape the control of her cruel mentor and claw her way from poverty is to set her sights on something grander: becoming Royal Storyteller to the king. During her final story peddling tour, a tale of treason spills from her hands, threatening the king himself. Tanwen goes from peddler to prey as the king's guard hunts her down . . . and they're not known for their mercy. As Tanwen flees for her life, she unearths long-buried secrets and discovers she's not the only outlaw in the empire. There's a rebel group of weavers . . . and they're after her too.
Download or read book History of Pedlars in Europe written by Laurence Fontaine and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profession of peddling has until now received only slight and fragmentary scholarly attention. Usually treated in an anecdotal fashion, the pedlar has generally been thought of as a marginal figure, closer in character to a vagabond than a trader. In this first sustained account of the profession in Europe, Laurence Fontaine argues that peddling, particularly as a means of distributing new commodities such as books, watches, and tobacco, played a crucial role in the formation of the modern European economy. Focusing primarily on the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries, Fontaine traces the origins and development of peddling and the establishment of trading networks. She analyzes the changing social construction of the practice and the effect of encounters between traders of different regions. Following the pedlars' trade routes across Europe from Spain to Sweden and Scotland to the upper Rhine, she examines their importance as channels of communication as well as of goods and raises such issues as the impact of pedlars on the values and cultural practices of the communities they visited and the ways in which being merchants changed the lives of these migrants. History of Pedlars in Europe separates the mythology that surrounds peddling from the historically reliable and integrates existing studies with new archival research to illuminate one of the most remote areas of the social and economic history of early modern Europe. A means of trade based on mobility, uncertainty, and interdependence, peddling is rediscovered as a dynamic force involved in nothing less than the creation of a modern consumer society.
Download or read book Restriction of Peddling as a Nuisance written by University of Oregon. Bureau of Municipal Research and Service and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laws Relating to Hawkers Peddlers and Itinerant Venders written by Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Peddlers written by and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the enterprise and commercial development that peddlers brought to the colonies before the establishment of general stores.
Download or read book Birth of a Salesman written by Walter A. FRIEDMAN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entertaining and informative book, Walter Friedman chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and canvassers to one driven by professional salesmen and executives. From book agents flogging Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs to John H. Patterson's famous pyramid strategy at National Cash Register to the determined efforts by Ford and Chevrolet to craft surefire sales pitches for their dealers, selling evolved from an art to a science. "Salesmanship" as a term and a concept arose around the turn of the century, paralleling the new science of mass production. Managers assembled professional forces of neat responsible salesmen who were presented as hardworking pillars of society, no longer the butt of endless "traveling salesmen" jokes. People became prospects; their homes became territories. As an NCR representative said, the modern salesman "let the light of reason into dark places." The study of selling itself became an industry, producing academic disciplines devoted to marketing, consumer behavior, and industrial psychology. At Carnegie Mellon's Bureau of Salesmanship Research, Walter Dill Scott studied the characteristics of successful salesmen and ways to motivate consumers to buy. Full of engaging portraits and illuminating insights, Birth of a Salesman is a singular contribution that offers a clear understanding of the transformation of salesmanship in modern America. Reviews of this book: The history Friedman weaves is engrossing and the book hits stride with entertaining chapters on Mark Twain's marketing of the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (apparently Twain was as talented a businessman as a writer) and on the shift from the drummer--the middleman between wholesalers and regional shopkeepers--to the department store...In Birth of a Salesman, Friedman has crafted a history of an 'inherently unlikable process' with depth, affection and intelligent analysis. --Carlo Wolff, Boston Globe I very much enjoyed reading this book. It is well written, well argued, and thoroughly researched. Salesmen, Friedman argues, helped distribute the products of America's increasingly bountiful manufacturing industries, invented new forms of managerial hierarchies, investigated the psychology of desire, and were in the vanguard of America's transformation from a producer to a consumer society. He powerfully shows that the rise of modern business practices and the emergence of a particularly American culture of consumption can only be fully understood if we examine the history of selling. --Sven Beckert, author of The Monied Metropolis Walter Friedman's Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America is an important book. The modern industrial economy, created in the United States and Europe between the 1880s and the 1930s, required the integration of large-scale production and marketing. The evolution of mass production is a well-known story, but Friedman is the first to fill in the crucial marketing side of that industrial revolution. --Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., author of The Visible Hand and Scale and Scope With wit and verve, Walter Friedman gives us a cast of memorable characters who turned salesmanship from ballyhoo to behaviorism, from silliness to science. Informed by prodigious research, Birth of a Salesman also clarifies the birth of modern marketing--from an angle that humanizes its subject through wry, ironic, but serious analysis. This is a pioneering work on a subject crucial to American social, cultural, and business history. --Thomas K. McCraw, author of Creating Modern Capitalism
Download or read book The Peddler s Boy Or I ll be Somebody written by Francis Channing Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Bissell, the youngest child of a peddler, decides that he will make something of his life.
Download or read book Municipal Regulation of Peddlers Solicitors Itinerant Merchants written by Charles S. Rhyne and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Peddler s Boy Or I ll be Somebody written by Francis Channing Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Peddler s Gift written by Maxine Schur and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy in turn-of-the-century rural Russia learns that appearances are often deceiving after he steals and then tries to return a dreidel to the traveling peddler Shnook.
Download or read book The Peddler s Cart written by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At summer's end, when the cart was turned homeward, 11 year old George marveled at the new and wonderful life he had come to know. Now he understood why papa was a peddler.
Download or read book Restriction of Peddling as a Nuisance written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pezzo the Peddler and the Thirteen Silly Thieves written by and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pezzo, the cap peddler, has his wares stolen, he gets them back by shouting, "Fire!"
