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Star rating for The pioneer merchant in mid-America
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date:
1969
Language:
English
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Star rating for The frontier merchant in Mid-America
Publisher:
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date:
[1971]
Language:
English
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Star rating for The New England merchants in the seventeenth century
Language:
English
Description:
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.
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Star rating for Oregon argonauts
Publisher:
Oregon Historical Society
Pub. Date:
1961
Language:
English
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Star rating for The merchant
Author:
Publisher:
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
"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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Star rating for Merchant princes
Publisher:
Kodansha International
Pub. Date:
1994
Language:
English
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Star rating for J.C. Penney
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date:
[2017]
Language:
English
Description:
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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Star rating for Celebration of Fools
Author:
Publisher:
AMACOM
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
Description:
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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Star rating for A maritime history of the United States
Publisher:
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date:
[1988]
Language:
English
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Star rating for America and the sea
Series:
Publisher:
Mystic Seaport
Pub. Date:
1998
Language:
English
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Star rating for Merchant adventurer
Publisher:
SR Books
Pub. Date:
1993
Language:
English
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Star rating for Sons of providence
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
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Star rating for The sea and the States
Publisher:
Crowell
Pub. Date:
1967
Language:
English
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Star rating for Maritime Administration Authorization Act of 2010
Publisher:
U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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Star rating for Sail on
Publisher:
United States Lines Company
Pub. Date:
[1946]
Language:
English
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Star rating for Frigate and clipper
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Publisher:
Yale University press
Pub. Date:
1919-1920
Language:
English
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Star rating for Celebration of fools
Publisher:
AMACOM, American Management Association
Pub. Date:
[2004]
Language:
English
Description:
Annotation Annotation.
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Star rating for Greyhounds of the sea
Publisher:
United States Naval Institute
Pub. Date:
[1961, c1930]
Language:
English
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Star rating for Citizens of convenience
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
"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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Star rating for Competition in coastal seas
Publisher:
Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment :
Pub. Date:
[1989]
Language:
English

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