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University of Missouri studies volume 55
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University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date:
[1971]
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English
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English
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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.
5. The merchant
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Cavendish Square
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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"Explores the life of a colonial merchant and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date:
[2017]
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English
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By tracing that spirit to its agrarian source, and following it through the twentieth century, J. C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture provides a new perspective on this American cultural institution--and on its founder's unique brand of American capitalism
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AMACOM
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
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JCPenney was the quintessential American company. Since James Cash Penney opened his first store in the small mining town of Kemmerer, Wyoming, in 1902, this unique institution has been an iconic part of the national landscape. Founded and run on the core principles of thrift, hard work, and good citizenship, the retail giant prospered throughout the 20th century, even during the Great Depression, as American citizens came to rely on it for its good...
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American maritime library volume 15
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Mystic Seaport
Pub. Date:
1998
Language:
English
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Chronicles of America volume 10
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Yale University press
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1919-1920
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English
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University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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"Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting between British and American nationality. In Citizens of Convenience, Lawrence Hatter shows how this practice undermined the United States' claim to nationhood and threatened the transcontinental imperial...
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