Author: J. R. DolanPublisher:
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Category : Peddlers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Yankee Peddler in Early America
Author: Edward Luke HuttonThe Yankee Peddlers of Early America
Author: J. R. DolanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peddlers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Hawkers & Walkers in Early America
Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peddlers
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Strolling peddlers, preachers, lawyers, doctors, players and others from the beginning to the Civil War.
The Yankee Peddler
Author: Mary-Lou HinmanPublisher:
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Category : Peddlers and peddling
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Hawkers and Walkers in Early America
Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peddlers
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Those Shrews Yankee Peddlers
Author: Allan KellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sales
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The early traveling salesman carried civilization on his back into the wilderness. Trying to make life easier and a little more fun, the hard dealing venturer brought news, gossip, and goods to isolated settlers.
Hawkers & Walkers in Early America
Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peddlers
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Strolling peddlers, preachers, lawyers, doctors, players and others from the beginning to the Civil War.
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
Author: Yunte HuangPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 163149385X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
“An astonishing story, by turns ghastly, hilarious, unnerving, and moving.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve In this “excellent” portrait of America’s famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in the conjoined lives of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874) a trenchant “comment on the times in which we live” (Wall Street Journal). “Uncovering ironies, paradoxes and examples of how Chang and Eng subverted what Leslie Fiedler called ‘the tyranny of the normal’ ” (BBC), Huang depicts the twins’ implausible route to assimilation after their “discovery” in Siam by a British merchant in 1824 and arrival in Boston as sideshow curiosities in 1829. Their climb from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich, southern gentry who profited from entertaining the Jacksonian mobs; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but an “extraordinary” (New York Times), Hawthorne-like excavation of America’s historical penchant for tyrannizing the other—a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.
A History of Small Business in America
Author: Mansel G. BlackfordPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807854532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
From the colonial era to the present day, small businesses have been an integral part of American life. First published in 1991 and now thoroughly updated, this study explores the central but ever-changing role played by small enterprises in the nation's economic, political and cultural development.
On the Word of a Jew
Author: Nina CaputoPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253037417
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
What, if anything, does religion have to do with how reliable we perceive one another to be? When and how did religious difference matter in the past when it came to trusting the word of another? In today’s world, we take for granted that being Jewish should not matter when it comes to acting or engaging in the public realm, but this was not always the case. The essays in this volume look at how and when Jews were recognized as reliable and trustworthy in the areas of jurisprudence, medicine, politics, academia, culture, business, and finance. As they explore issues of trust and mistrust, the authors reveal how caricatures of Jews move through religious, political, and legal systems. While the volume is framed as an exploration of Jewish and Christian relations, it grapples with perceptions of Jews and Jewishness from the biblical period to today, from the Middle East to North America, and in Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions. Taken together these essays reflect on the mechanics of trust, and sometimes mistrust, in everyday interactions involving Jews.