Download or read book Merchants and Shopkeepers written by P. H. Gulliver and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Thomastown, Ireland, exploring the town's 800-year history of commerce and focusing on merchants and shopkeepers during the last 200 years. It describes the entrepreneurial strategies of shopkeepers and the persistence or decline of family businesses, with discussions on dependency models, ideas of modernization, class structure, and the socio-economics of small businesses. Of interest to anthropologists and students. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Old Merchants of New York City written by Joseph Alfred Scoville and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Merchants of New York City written by Joseph Alfred Scoville and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Attention Merchants written by Tim Wu and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the award-winning The Master Switch, who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. "Dazzling." —Financial Times Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention. This condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. Wu’s narrative begins in the nineteenth century, when Benjamin Day discovered he could get rich selling newspapers for a penny. Since then, every new medium—from radio to television to Internet companies such as Google and Facebook—has attained commercial viability and immense riches by turning itself into an advertising platform. Since the early days, the basic business model of “attention merchants” has never changed: free diversion in exchange for a moment of your time, sold in turn to the highest-bidding advertiser. Full of lively, unexpected storytelling and piercing insight, The Attention Merchants lays bare the true nature of a ubiquitous reality we can no longer afford to accept at face value.
Download or read book A Shopkeeper s Millennium written by Paul E. Johnson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-06-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The religious revival that transformed America in the 1820s, making it the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and spawning reform movements dedicated to temperance and to the abolition of slavery, had an especially powerful effect in Rochester, New York. Paul E. Johnson explores the reasons for the revival's spectacular success there, suggesting important links between its moral accounting and the city's new industrial world. In a new preface, he reassesses his evidence and his conclusions in this major work.
Download or read book The Old Merchants of New York City written by Joseph Alfred Scoville and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century written by Bernard Bailyn and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In detail Bailyn here presents the struggle of the merchants to achieve full social recognition as their successes in trade and in such industries as fishing and lumbering offered them avenues to power. Surveying the rise of merchant families, he offers a look in depth of the emergence of a new social group whose interests and changing social position powerfully affected the developing character of American society.
Download or read book Gentlemen Merchants written by Richard George Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Were Merchants written by Hans J. Sternberg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words "Goudchaux's/Maison Blanche" conjure up a wealth of fond memories for local shoppers. At this landmark Louisiana department store, clerks greeted you by name; children received a nickel to buy a Coke and for every report-card A; families anticipated the holiday arrival of the beloved puppet Mr. Bingle almost as much as Santa; teenagers applied for their first job; and customers enjoyed interest-free charge accounts and personal assistance selecting attire and gifts for the most significant occasions in life -- baptisms, funerals, and everything in between. While most former patrons have a favorite story to tell about Goudchaux's/Maison Blanche, not many know the personal tale behind this beloved institution. In We Were Merchants, Hans Sternberg provides a captivating account of how his parents, Erich and Lea, fled from Nazi Germany to the United States, embraced their new home, and together with their children built Goudchaux's into a Baton Rouge legend that eventually became Goudchaux's/Maison Blanche -- an independent retail force during the golden era of the department store and, by 1989, the largest family-owned department store in America. With a mercantile line extending back five generations to a small shop in eighteenth-century Germany, the Sternbergs were born to be shopkeepers. In 1936, as Nazi harassment of Jews intensified, Erich smuggled $24,000 out of Germany and settled in Baton Rouge. His wife and three children joined him a year later, and in 1939, Erich bought Goudchaux's and set about transforming it from a nondescript apparel shop into a true department store. He made buying trips to New York for quality fashions and furs, introduced imaginative sales promotions, and coached his staff in impeccable customer service, while also training his children to follow in his footsteps. Hans details the manifold challenges of operating the store -- from planning financial strategies and creating marketing campaigns to implementing desegregation and accommodating the repeal of blue laws. Through many transforming events -- Erich's death in 1965, expansion into suburban shopping malls, the purchase in the 1980s of New Orleans retail icon Maison Blanche -- the Sternbergs successfully maintained the company's core values: quality merchandise, employee loyalty, and superior customer service. At its height, Goudchaux's/Maison Blanche operated twenty-four stores in Louisiana and Florida and employed more than 8,000 people. With the economic downturn of the early 1990s, Hans made the difficult decision to sell the business, thus bringing to an end the Sternbergs' centuries-long mercantile tradition. Supplementing the fascinating narrative are the recollections of former customers and employees, a wealth of pertinent photos, and even Hans's tried-and-true guidelines for negotiating a business transaction. At once a family, business, and community story, We Were Merchants richly recalls a bygone era when department stores were near-magical wonderlands and family businesses commanded the retail landscape.
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 The Young Merchant written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise written by Thomas M. Doerflinger and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the spirit and statistics of merchant life. Doerflinger studies the Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their commercial world, their confrontation with the Revolution and its aftermath, and their role in diversifying the local economy. The analysis of entrepreneurship dominates the study and challenges long-standing assumptions about American economic history.
Download or read book Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth century Europe written by Geoffrey Crossick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1984 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Honorable Merchants written by Richard John Lufrano and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of East Asia's current economic success, it has become increasingly clear that Confucian social thought, long assumed in Western scholarship to be a major stumbling block to economic development, can, under the proper circumstances, have exactly the opposite effect. Lufrano's study is the most sustained and sophisticated of recent reevaluations of Confucianism's role in the rapid commercial development in the late Ming to mid-Qing period. It will be of great interest and value to scholars in the growing field of Chinese business history and should be welcomed by those interested in the Confucian roots of Pacific Rim business practice.
Download or read book Addison Broadhurst Master Merchant written by Edward Mott Woolley and published by McClelland & Goodchild, [191-]. This book was released on 1913 with total page 294 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 1844 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth century Europe written by Geoffrey Crossick and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
