Download or read book The Merchant s Clerk Cheered and Counselled written by James Waddell ALEXANDER (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Merchant s Clerk Cheered and Counselled written by James Waddel Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 86 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 1859 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Capitalism Takes Command written by Michael Zakim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an “ism” and how business became a political philosophy, Capitalism Takes Command brings the economy back into American social and cultural history.

Download or read book Merchants Magazine and Commercial Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 782 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:

Download or read book Economics of Retailing written by Paul Henry Nystrom and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Make written by Brian P. Luskey and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and "counter jumpers" discovered that claiming the identities of independent men—while making sense of a volatile capitalist economy and fluid urban society—was fraught with uncertainty. In On the Make, Brian P. Luskey illuminates at once the power of the ideology of self-making and the important contests over the meanings of respectability, manhood, and citizenship that helped to determine who clerks were and who they would become. Drawing from a rich array of archival materials, including clerks’ diaries, newspapers, credit reports, census data, advice literature, and fiction, Luskey argues that a better understanding of clerks and clerking helps make sense of the culture of capitalism and the society it shaped in this pivotal era.

Download or read book The Man of Business Considered in His Various Relations Essays By J W Alexander J Todd W B Sprague Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Emergence of the Middle Class written by Stuart M. Blumin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-29 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the emergence of the recongnizable 'middle class' from the 1760-1900.

Download or read book Contested Democracy written by Manisha Sinha and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates struggles waged over freedom and citizenship throughout the American past. Guided by a commitment to democratic citizenship and responsible scholarship, the contributors to this volume insist that rigorous engagement with history is essential to a vital democracy, particularly amid the current erosion of human rights and civil liberties within the United States and abroad. Emphasizing the contradictory ways in which freedom has developed within the United States and in the exercise of American power abroad, these essays probe challenges to American democracy through conflicts shaped by race, slavery, gender, citizenship, political economy, immigration, law, empire, and the idea of the nation state. In this volume, writers demonstrate how opposition to the expansion of democracy has shaped the American tradition as much as movements for social and political change. By foregrounding those who have been marginalized in U.S society as well as the powerful, these historians and scholars argue for an alternative vision of American freedom that confronts the limitations, failings, and contradictions of U.S. power. Their work provides crucial insight into the role of the United States in this latest age of American empire and the importance of different and oppositional visions of American democracy and freedom. At a time of intense disillusionment with U.S. politics and of increasing awareness of the costs of empire, these contributors argue that responsible historical scholarship can challenge the blatant manipulation of discourses on freedom. They call for careful and conscientious scholarship not only to illuminate contemporary problems but also to act as a bulwark against mythmaking in the service of cynical political ends.

Download or read book Accounting for Capitalism written by Michael Zakim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capitalism, Michael Zakim has written their story, a social history of capital that seeks to explain how the “bottom line” became a synonym for truth in an age shorn of absolutes, grafted onto our very sense of reason and trust. This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The personal trajectory of these young men from farm to metropolis, homestead to boarding house, and, most significantly, from growing things to selling them exemplified the enormous social effort required to domesticate the profit motive and turn it into the practical foundation of civic life. As Zakim reveals in his highly original study, there was nothing natural or preordained about the stunning ascendance of this capitalism and its radical transformation of the relationship between “Man and Mammon.”

Download or read book The Man of Business written by James Waddel Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 100 Years on the Road written by Timothy B. Spears and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.

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Download or read book Addenda to the Bibliotheca Americana written by Orville Augustus Roorbach and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: