Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
An Address to the Inhabitants of the City of New-York by the Board of Managers of the New-York City Temperance Society
Author: The Sailors' and Soldiers' Magazine
Author: In Hock
Author: Wendy A. WolosonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226905691
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Intemperance; or, a view of the abundance, the influence, and the horrible consequences of ardent spirits in their excessive use, etc. (An appendix containing the chief pamphlets that have appeared in New York on ... intemperance.).
Author: George Charles SMITHBulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
An Address to the Inhabitants of the City of New-York by the Board of Managers of the New-York City Temperance Society,
Author: New-York City Temperance SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The National Advocate
Author: Addresses Delivered at the Second Anniversary Meeting of the National Temperance Society and Publication House, Held at Cooper Institute in the City of New-York, Wednesday Evening, May 8th, 1867
Author: National Temperance Society and Publication HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description