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Book A Digest of the Acts of Assembly and of the Ordinances of the Inhabitants and Commissioners of the District of Spring Garden  for the Government of that District

Download or read book A Digest of the Acts of Assembly and of the Ordinances of the Inhabitants and Commissioners of the District of Spring Garden for the Government of that District written by Spring Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Digest of the Acts of Assembly and the Ordinances  of the Commissioners and Inhabitants of the Kensington District

Download or read book A Digest of the Acts of Assembly and the Ordinances of the Commissioners and Inhabitants of the Kensington District written by Philadelphia (Pa.). and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Digest of Acts of Assembly  Relating to the Incorporated District of the Northern Liberties

Download or read book A Digest of Acts of Assembly Relating to the Incorporated District of the Northern Liberties written by Northern Liberties (Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

Book Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library  January 1  1978

Download or read book Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library January 1 1978 written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library  Compiled and Classified by W  De Witt

Download or read book Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library Compiled and Classified by W De Witt written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Works Relating to City Charters  Ordinances  and Collected Documents

Download or read book List of Works Relating to City Charters Ordinances and Collected Documents written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Hock

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  • Author : Wendy A. Woloson
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2009-12-16
  • ISBN : 0226905691
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book In Hock written by Wendy A. Woloson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation’s founding through the Great Depression, In Hock demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic tide could make ends meet only, Wendy Woloson argues, by regularly pawning household objects to supplement inadequate wages. Nonetheless, businessmen, reformers, and cultural critics claimed that pawnshops promoted vice, and employed anti-Semitic stereotypes to cast their proprietors as greedy and cold-hearted. Using personal correspondence, business records, and other rich archival sources to uncover the truth behind the rhetoric, Woloson brings to life a diverse cast of characters and shows that pawnbrokers were in fact shrewd businessmen, often from humble origins, who possessed sophisticated knowledge of a wide range of goods in various resale markets. A much-needed new look at a misunderstood institution, In Hock is both a first-rate academic study of a largely ignored facet of the capitalist economy and a resonant portrait of the economic struggles of generations of Americans.

Book A Digest of the Acts of Assembly Relating to the City of Philadelphia and the  late  Incorporated Districts of the County of Philadelphia  and of the Ordinances of the Said City and Districts  in Force on the First Day of January  A D  1856

Download or read book A Digest of the Acts of Assembly Relating to the City of Philadelphia and the late Incorporated Districts of the County of Philadelphia and of the Ordinances of the Said City and Districts in Force on the First Day of January A D 1856 written by Philadelphia (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Digest of Acts of Assembly Relating to the Kensington District of the Northern Liberties  and of the Ordinances of the Corporation

Download or read book Digest of Acts of Assembly Relating to the Kensington District of the Northern Liberties and of the Ordinances of the Corporation written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Checklist of American Imprints for

Download or read book A Checklist of American Imprints for written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Capitalism by Gaslight

Download or read book Capitalism by Gaslight written by Brian P. Luskey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy. Lurking in the shadows of capitalism's past are those who made markets by navigating a range of new financial instruments, information systems, and modes of transactions: prostitutes, dealers in used goods, mock auctioneers, illegal slavers, traffickers in stolen horses, emigrant runners, pilfering dock workers, and other ordinary people who, through their transactions and lives, helped to make capitalism as much as it made them. Capitalism by Gaslight illuminates American economic history by emphasizing the significance of these markets and the cultural debates they provoked. These essays reveal that the rules of economic engagement were still being established in the nineteenth century: delineations between legal and illegal, moral and immoral, acceptable and unsuitable were far from clear. The contributors examine the fluid mobility and unstable value of people and goods, the shifting geographies and structures of commercial institutions, the blurred boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate economic activity, and the daily lives of men and women who participated creatively—and often subversively—in American commerce. With subjects ranging from women's studies and African American history to material and consumer culture, this compelling volume illustrates that when hidden forms of commerce are brought to light, they can become flashpoints revealing the tensions, fissures, and inequities inherent in capitalism itself. Contributors: Paul Erickson, Robert J. Gamble, Ellen Gruber Garvey, Corey Goettsch, Joshua R. Greenberg, Katie M. Hemphill, Craig B. Hollander, Brian P. Luskey, Will B. Mackintosh, Adam Mendelsohn, Brendan P. O'Malley, Michael D. Thompson, Wendy A. Woloson.

Book Catalogue of the Astor Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Astor Library  continuation

Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library continuation written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Digest of Laws Relating to the City of Philadelphia

Download or read book A Digest of Laws Relating to the City of Philadelphia written by Philadelphia (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: