(American Fur Company), Washington Irving; edited by Richard Dilworth
Rust (1982). Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an Enterprize Beyond the Rocky
Mountains. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 374 p. [orig.
pub. 1976]). Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848; American Fur
Company--History; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Voyages to the
Pacific coast; Astoria (Or.)--History.
(American Fur Company), Washington Irving ; introduction by Kaori
O'Connor (1987).
Astoria: Adventure in the Pacific Northwest.
(New York: KPI, 440 p. [orig. pub. 1839]). Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848;
American Fur Company--History; Voyages to the Pacific coast; Overland
journeys to the Pacific; Astoria (Or.)--History.
(Brown), James Blaine Hedges (1968).
The Browns of Providence
Plantations. (Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 2 vols. [orig.
pub. 1952]). Brown family; Merchants--Providence; Providence
(R.I.)--Economic conditions.
(Brown), Charles Rappleye (2006).
Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the
American Revolution. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster,, 400 p.).
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836; Brown, John, 1736-1803; Brown family; Merchants
--Rhode Island --Providence --Biography; Slave trade --Rhode Island
--Providence --History; Slavery --Rhode Island --Providence --History;
Providence (R.I.) --Biography; Rhode Island --History --Revolution,
1775-1783; Providence (R.I.) --History --18th century.
John
Brown (profit-driven robber baron running slave galleys from his wharf
on Providence waterfront) and Moses Brown (idealist, conscientious
Quaker hungry for social reform, struck out against hypocrisy of slavery
in land of liberty) - bound by blood,
divided by more than half a million Africans enslaved throughout
colonies.
(Cely), Ed. Alison Hanham (1975).
The Cely Letters, 1472-1488.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 365 p.). Cely family;
Commerce--History--Medieval, 500-1500--Sources; Great
Britain--Commerce--History--Sources.
(Cely), Alison Hanham (1985).
The Celys and Their World: An
English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth Century. (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press,, 472 p.). Cely, Richard, 15th cent.; Cely,
George, d. 1489; Cely family; Wool industry--England--History;
Merchants--England--Biography.
(Chouteau), William E. Foley and C. David Rice (1983).
The First
Chouteaus, River Barons of Early St. Louis. (Urbana, IL: University
of Illinois Press, 241 p.). Chouteau family; Fur trade--West
(U.S.)--History; Saint Louis (Mo.)--Biography; Saint Louis
(Mo.)--Commerce.
(Chouteau), Shirley Christian (2004).
Before Lewis and Clark: The
Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty that Ruled America's Frontier.
(New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 509 p.). Chouteau family;
Pioneers--Missouri--Saint Louis--Biography; French
Americans--Missouri--Saint Louis--Biography;
Businessmen--Missouri--Saint Louis--Biography; Frontier and pioneer
life--Missouri River Valley; Saint Louis (Mo.)--Biography; Missouri
River Valley--Biography; Missouri River Valley--History.
(Chouteau), Stan Hoig (2008).
The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade. (Albuquerque, NM:
University of New Mexico Press, 337 p.). Professor Emeritus of
Journalism (University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond). Chouteau family;
Pioneers --Missouri --Saint Louis --Biography; Fur traders --Missouri
--Saint Louis --Biography; French Americans --Missouri --Saint Louis
--Biography; Businessmen --Missouri --Saint Louis --Biography; Fur trade
--Missouri River Valley --History; Frontier and pioneer life --Missouri
River Valley; Saint Louis (Mo.) --Biography; Missouri River Valley
--Biography; Missouri River Valley --History. Four generations
of Chouteau family (founding family of St. Louis): conducted trade,
took wives among native tribes; provided valuable aid to Lewis and
Clark expedition, assisted government officials in developing Indian
treaties, gave counsel to national leaders, tribal heads, men of
frontier fame; established network of trading posts, opened trade routes
throughout Central Plains, Rocky Mountains.
(Compagnia dei Peruzzi), Edwin S. Hunt (1994).
The Medieval
Super-Companies: A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence. (New
York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 291 p.). Compagnia dei Peruzzi--History;
Merchants--Italy--Florence--History; Florence
(Italy)--Commerce--History.
(Greg & Cunningham), Edited by Thomas M. Truxes (2001).
Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-57: Merchants of New York and
Belfast. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 430 p.). Senior
Lecturer in the History Department (Trinity College, Hartford, CT).
Greg, Thomas --Correspondence; Cunningham, Waddel --Correspondence; Greg
& Cunningham (Firm); Merchants --New York (State) --New York --History
--18th century; Merchants --Ireland --Belfast --History --18th century;
United States --Commerce --Ireland --History --18th century; Ireland
--Commerce --United States --History --18th century.
Correspondence
from most successful Irish-American trading firm of colonial
period, vivid picture of transatlantic economy.
(Grocers' Company), Pamela Nightingale (1995).
A Medieval
Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company & the Politics & Trade of
London, 1000-1485. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 640 p.).
Leverhulme Research Fellow (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). Grocers' Company
(London, England); Trading companies--England--London--History--To 1500;
Spice trade--England--London--History--To 1500; Wool
industry--England--London--History--To 1500; London
(England)--Commerce--History.
(Hudson's Bay Company), John S. Galbraith (1957).
The Hudson's Bay Company as an Imperial Factor, 1821-1869.
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 500 p.). Hudson's Bay
Company; Northwest, Canadian--History.
(Hudson's Bay), E. E. Rich; With a foreword by Winston Churchill
(1961).
Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1870. (New York, NY:
Macmillan, 3 vols.). Hudson's Bay Company. Contents: v. 1. 1670-1763 --
v. 2. 1763-1820 -- v. 3. 1821-1870.
(Hudson's Bay Company), Sir George Simpson; Edited with a new introd.
by Frederick Merk (1968).
Fur Trade and Empire; George Simpson’s Journal; Remarks Connected with
the Fur Trade in the Course of a Voyage from York Factory to Fort George
and Back to York Factory 1824-1825; with Related Documents.
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 370 p.). Simpson, George, Sir,
1786 or 7-1860; Hudson’s Bay Company; Fur trade--Northwest, Canadian;
Northwest, Canadian--Description and travel.
(Hudson's Bay Company), John S. Galbraith (1976).
The Little Emperor: Governor Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company.
(Toronto, ON: Macmillan of Canada, 232 p.). Simpson, George, Sir, 1786
or 7-1860; Hudson's Bay Company; Colonial agents--Great
Britain--Biography; Businesspeople--Northwest, Canadian--Biography;
Northwest, Canadian--History; Northwest, Canadian--Biography.
(Hudson’s Bay Company), Alberta Brooks Fogdall (1978).
Royal Family of the Columbia: Dr. John McLoughlin and His Family.
(Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 328 p.). McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857;
Hudson’s Bay Company; Pioneers --Northwest, Pacific --Biography;
Merchants --Northwest, Pacific --Biography; Fur trade --Northwest,
Pacific --History; Oregon --History --To 1859; Northwest, Pacific
--History.
(Hudson's Bay Company), Michael Payne (1989). The Most Respectable
Place in the Territory: Everyday Life in Hudson's Bay Company Service,
York Factory, 1788 to 1870. (Ottawa, QU: National Historic Parks and
Sites, Canadian Parks Service, Environment Canada, 206 p.). Hudson's Bay
Company--History; Fur trade--Social aspects--Manitoba--York Factory;
Frontier and pioneer life--Northwest, Canadian; Fur trade--Northwest,
Canadian--History; York Factory (Man.)--History; York Factory
(Man.)--Social conditions.
(Hudson's Bay Company), Deidre Simmons (2008).
Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives.
(Montreal, QU: McGill-Queen's University Press, 360 p.). Research,
Archives Consultant. Hudson's Bay Company--History; Hudson's Bay
Company--Archives. One of world's
most complete archival collections (three centuries); national treasure (protected in
vaults of Archives of Manitoba); history of fur trade,
North American exploration, growth of retail empire, evolution of Canada
as country; historical context
of Company, England, Canada, British and Canadian archival traditions.
(Pacific Fur Company), Washington Irving (1998).
Astoria. (New York, NY: Putnam, 440 p. [orig. pub. 1897]).
Pacific Fur Company; Fur trade--Oregon; Overland journeys to the
Pacific; Astoria (Or.). Chronicled the early Far West fur trade;
romanticized Wilson Hunt, who arrived in the fur-trading post of
Astoria, OR (about 60 miles northwest of modern-day Portland) on
February 15, 1812, as the archetypal frontier hero.
(Pacific Fur Company), Ed. Robert F. Jones (1999).
Annals of
Astoria: The Headquarters Log of the Pacific Fur Company on the Columbia
River, 1811-1813. (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 256 p.).
McDougall, Duncan, d. 1818 --Diaries; Pacific Fur Company--History; Fur
trade--Columbia River Valley--History--19th century; Astoria
(Or.)--History.
(Rocky Mountain Fur Company), Don Berry (1961).
A Majority of
Scoundrels; An Informal History of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.
(New York, NY: Harper, 432 p.). Rocky Mountain Fur Company; Fur
trade--West (U.S.).
Thabit A. Abdullah (2001).
Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political
Economy of Trade in Eighteenth Century Basra. (Albany, NY: State University
of New York Press, 180 p.). Merchants--Iraq--Basrah--History--18th century;
Mamelukes; Basrah (Iraq)--Commerce--History--18th century; Basrah (Iraq)--Ethnic
relations--Economic aspects; Basrah (Iraq)--History--18th century.
David Alexander (1970).
Retailing in England during the Industrial Revolution. (London,
UK: Athlone P., 282 p.). Retail trade--Great Britain--History.
David Arthur Armour (1986). The Merchants of Albany, New York, 1686-1760.
(New York, NY: Garland Pub., 275 p.). Merchants--New York
(State)--Albany--History--17th century; Merchants--New York
(State)--Albany--History--18th century; Fur trade--New York
(State)--Albany--History--17th century; =Fur trade--New York
(State)--Albany--History--18th century; Albany (N.Y.)--Commerce--History--17th
century; Albany (N.Y.)--Commerce--History--18th century. Series: American
business history.
Bernard Bailyn (1955).
The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth
Century. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 249 p.). Merchants--New
England; New England--Commerce--History--17th century.
J. N. Ball (1977). Merchants and Merchandise: The Expansion of Trade in
Europe 1500-1630. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 226 p.).
Merchants--Europe--History; Europe--Commerce--History.
Eds. Bruno Blonde ... [et al.] (2006).
Buyers & Sellers: Retail Circuits and Practices in Mediaeval and Early
Modern Europe. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 351 p.). Retail
trade -- Europe -- History; Markets -- Europe -- History; Shopping --
Europe -- History; European mediaeval economic history.
J.F. Bosher (1987).
The Canada Merchants, 1713-1763. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 234 p.). Merchants--Canada--History--18th century;
Huguenots--Canada--History--18th century;
Canada--Commerce--France--History--18th century;
France--Commerce--Canada--History--18th century; Canada--History--To 1763 (New
France).
James C. Boyajian (1993).
Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 356 p.). Marranos--Portugal--History--16th
century; Marranos--Portugal--History--17th century;
Portugal--Commerce--Asia--History--16th century;
Portugal--Commerce--Asia--History--17th century;
Asia--Commerce--Portugal--History--16th century;
Asia--Commerce--Portugal--History--17th century.
How Portuguese-Asian commerce formed part of global trading network that
linked Europe and Asia, and Asia, West Africa, Brazil, Spanish America.
Susan Calafate Boyle (1997).
Los Capitalistas: Hispano Merchants and the
Santa Fe Trade. (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 236 p.).
Merchants--New Mexico--History; New Mexico--Commerce--Mexico;
Mexico--Commerce--New Mexico; New Mexico--History--To 1848; Santa Fe National
Historic Trail--History; Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Robert Brenner (1993).
Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change,
Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653. (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 734 p.). Merchants--England--London--History;
Political leadership--England--London--History; Social
structure--England--London--History; London (England)--Commerce--History; London
(England)--Politics and government.
Stuart Weems Bruchey (1979).
Robert Oliver, Merchant of Baltimore,
1783-1819. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 411 [orig. pub. 1956]). Oliver,
Robert, 1757?-1834; Merchants--Baltimore--Biography; Baltimore
(Md.)--Commerce--History.
Frank J. Byrne (2006).
Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865.
(Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 308 p.). Assistant
Professor of History (State University of New York at Oswego).
Merchants--Southern States--History; Southern States--Social
conditions--History; Southern States--Economic conditions--History.
Ties between regional identity, marketplace in
19th-century America.
Ann M. Carlos (1986). The North American Fur Trade, 1804-1821: A
Study in the Life-Cycle of a Duopoly. (New York, NY: Garland, 232
p.). Hudson's Bay Company--History; North West Company--History; Fur
trade--Canada--History; Fur trade--North America--History;
Duopolies--Canada--History; Duopolies--North America--History.
Patricia Cleary (2000).
Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of
Independence in Eighteenth-Century America. (Amherst, MA: University
of Massachusetts, 279 p.). Associate Professor of History (California
State University, Long Beach). Murray, Elizabeth, 1726-1785; Boston
(Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Women -- Massachusetts --
Boston -- Biography; Businesswomen -- Massachusetts -- Boston --
Biography; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Women.
Nancy Cox (2000).
The Complete Tradesman: A Study of Retailing, 1550-1820.
(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 270 p.). Retail trade--Great Britain--History.
Nancy Cox and Karin Dannehl (2007).
Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England. (Burlington,
VT: Ashgate Pub., 250 p.). Honorary Research Fellow (University of
Wolverhampton); Research Fellow (University of Wolverhampton). Retail
trade--England--History; Consumption (Economics)--England--History.
How people at the time perceived retailing, both as onlookers, artists,
commentators, participants. Two ancillary
themes: 1) location and how contemporaries perceived settlements in
which there were shops; 2) distance.
Edited with an introd. by Margaret Fisher Dalrymple (1978).
The Merchant
of Manchac: The Letterbooks of John Fitzpatrick, 1768-1790. (Baton Rouge,
LA: Louisiana State University Press, 451 p.). Fitzpatrick, John, ca. 1737-1791;
Pioneers--Louisiana--Biography; Merchants--Louisiana--Biography;
Louisiana--History--To 1803--Sources.
Edwin Danson (2001).
Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the
Most Famous Border in America. (New York, NY: Wiley, 232 p.). Surveyor.
Mason, Charles, 1728-1786; Dixon, Jeremiah; Frontier and pioneer
life--Pennsylvania; Frontier and pioneer life--Maryland;
Surveying--Pennsylvania--History--18th century;
Surveying--Maryland--History--18th century; Mason-Dixon Line--History;
Pennsylvania--Boundaries--Maryland--History;
Maryland--Boundaries--Pennsylvania--History.
John A. Davis (1981).
Merchants, Monopolists, and Contractors: A Study of
Economic Activity and Society in Bourbon Naples, 1815-1860. (New York, NY:
Arno Press. Merchants--Italy--Naples (Kingdom)--History; Pressure
groups--Italy--Naples (Kingdom)--History; Naples (Kingdom)--Economic conditions;
Naples (Kingdom)--Commerce--History; Naples (Kingdom)--Social conditions.
Robert A. Davison (1964).
Isaac Hicks; New York Merchant and
Quaker, 1767-1820 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 217
p.). Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820.
Gigliola Pagano de Divitiis; translated by Stephen Parkin (1997).
English
Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy. (New York, NY: Cambridge University
Press, 202 p.). Merchants, Foreign--Italy--History--17th century;
Italy--Commerce--England--History--17th century;
England--Commerce--Italy--History--17th century. Series: Cambridge studies in
Italian history and culture.
Robert Owen Decker (1986). The New London Merchants: The Rise and Decline
of a Connecticut Port. (New York, NY: Garland, 354 p.).
Merchants--Connecticut--New London--History; Harbors--Connecticut--New
London--History; Whaling--Connecticut--New London--History; New London
(Conn.)--Commerce--History. Series: American business history.
Thomas M. Doerflinger (1986).
A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in
Revolutionary Philadelphia. (Chapel Hill, NC: Published for the
Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. by
the University of North Carolina Press, 413 p.).
Businesspeople--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century;
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Commerce--History--18th century; Philadelphia
(Pa.)--Economic conditions. Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their
commercial world, their confrontation with Revolution and its aftermath,
their role in diversifying local economy.
Walter S. Dunn, Jr. (2002).
Opening New Markets: The British Army
and the old Northwest. (Westport, CT: Praeger, p.). Trading
posts--Northwest, Old--History--18th century; Merchants--Northwest,
Old--History--18th century; Fur trade--Northwest, Old--History--18th
century; Northwest, Old--History--To 1775; Northwest, Old--Economic
conditions; Illinois--History--To 1778; Great
Britain--Colonies--America--Commerce--History--18th century; Great
Britain--Armed Forces--Northwest, Old--History--18th century; Great
Britain--Commercial policy--History--18th century.
Stephen N. Elias (1992).
Alexander T. Stewart: The Forgotten Merchant
Prince. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 172 p.). Stewart, Alexander Turney,
1803-1876; Merchants--New York (State)--New York--Biography; Retail trade--New
York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
Jean Favier; translated from the French by Caroline Higgitt (1998).
Gold & Spices: The Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages. (New
York, NY: Holmes & Meier, 390 p.). Middle Ages; Merchants --Europe
--History; Europe --Commerce --History; Europe --Economic conditions
--To 1492. Development of capitalist institutions, practices in Europe
from 11th to 15th centuries.
Leila Tarazi Fawaz (1983).
Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth-Century
Beirut. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 182 p.).
Merchants--Lebanon--Beirut; Migration, Internal--Lebanon--History; Beirut
(Lebanon)--Commerce--History; Beirut (Lebanon)--History. Series: Harvard Middle
Eastern studies.
Alberta Brooks Fogdall (1978).
Royal Family of the Columbia: Dr. John
McLoughlin and His Family. (Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 328 p.).
McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857; Hudson's Bay Company; Pioneers--Northwest,
Pacific--Biography; Merchants--Northwest, Pacific--Biography; Fur
trade--Northwest, Pacific--History; Oregon--History--To 1859; Northwest,
Pacific--History.
Stephen Alexander Fortune (1984).
Merchants and Jews: The Struggle for British West Indian Commerce,
1650-1750. (Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 244
p). Merchants --West Indies, British --History; Jews --West Indies,
British --History; West Indies, British --Commerce --History.
James D. Frost (2003).
Merchant Princes: Halifax’s First Family of Finance, Ships, and Steel.
(Toronto, ON: J. Lorimer, 375 p.). Research Associate at Gorsebrook
Research Institute. Stair family; Merchants --Nova Scotia --Halifax
--Biography; Halifax (N.S.) --Biography. 1810 -
William Stairs opened a small general store on the Halifax waterfront;
next 150 years - successive generations of businessmen were engaged in
surprising range of mercantile, industrial activity.
E.B. Fryde (1988).
William de la Pole, Merchant and King's Banker (1366).
(Ronceverte, WV: Hambleton Press, 250 p.). De la Pole, William, d. 1366;
Merchants--England--Biography; Bankers--England--Biography.
Richard Gatty (1977). Portrait of a Merchant Prince: James Morrison,
1789-1857. (Northallerton: Pamela Gatty, 326 p.). Morrison, James,
1790-1857; Businesspeople--England--Biography; Merchants--England--Biography.
Limited ed. of 250 copies.
Perry Gauci (2007).
Emporium of the World: The Merchants of London 1660-1800. (New
York, NY: Hambledon Continuum, 255 p.). Faculty of History (University
of Oxford0. Merchants -- Great Britain -- History.
Political, social impact of English overseas merchants during upheavals
of late 17th, early 18th centuries; merchant
societies of London, York, Liverpool; growing prominence of
overseas trader in press, in Parliament.
Lorinda B.R. Goodwin (199).
An Archaeology of Manners: The Polite World of
the Merchant Elite in Colonial Massachusetts. (New York, NY: Kluwer
Academic/Plenum, 233 p.). Elite (Social sciences)--Massachusetts--Social life
and customs--17th century; Elite (Social sciences)--Massachusetts--Social life
and customs--18th century; Merchants--Massachusetts--History--17th century;
Merchants--Massachusetts--History--18th century; Material
culture--Massachusetts--History--17th century; Material
culture--Massachusetts--History--18th century;
Etiquette--Massachusetts--History--17th century;
Etiquette--Massachusetts--History--18th century; Massachusetts--Antiquities;
Massachusetts--Social life and customs--To 1775.
Richard Grassby (1995).
The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century
England. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 615 p.).
Merchants--England--History--17th century; Business
enterprises--England--History--17th century; England--Economic conditions--17th
century.
Kim M. Gruenwald (2002).
River of Enterprise: The Commercial
Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850.
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, p.). Regionalism--Ohio River
Valley--History; Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio River Valley;
Merchants--Ohio River Valley--History; Pioneers--Ohio River
Valley--History; Woodbridge family;
Merchants--Ohio--Marietta--Biography;
Pioneers--Ohio--Marietta--Biography; Ohio River Valley--Social
conditions; Ohio River Valley--Economic conditions; Ohio River
Valley--Commerce--Social aspects--History.
S. J. Guscott (2003).
Humphrey Chetham, 1580-1653: Fortune, Politics, and Mercantile Culture
in Seventeenth-Century England. (Otley [West Yorkshire,
England]: Smith Settle on behalf of The Chetham Society, 324 p.).
Chetham, Humphrey, 1580-1653; Textile industry --England --Manchester
--History --17th century; Philanthropists --England --Manchester
--Biography; Moneylenders --England --Manchester --Biography; Landowners
--England --Lancashire --Biography; Merchants --England --Manchester
--Biography; Manchester (England) --Biography; Lancashire (England)
--Biography; Manchester (England) --History; Lancashire (England
--History.
Sheryllynne Haggerty (2006).
The British-Atlantic Trading Community,1760-1810: Men, Women, and the
Distribution of Goods. (Boston, MA: Brill, 287 p.). Lecturer in
Early Modern British History (University of Nottingham). Merchants --
Great Britain -- History; Women merchants -- Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History.
Nature of
British-Atlantic trading community between 1760 and 1810; role
of lesser traders, including women, in distribution of goods around the
Atlantic; common business mentality inextricably bound these trading
communities together.
Edited with an introduction by D.R. Hainsworth (1969). Builders and
Adventurers; The Traders and the Emergence of the Colony 1788-1821.
(Melbourne, AU: Cassell Australia, 174 p.). Merchants--Australia--New South
Wales; New South Wales--Economic conditions.
David Hancock (1995).
Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the
Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785. (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press,, 477 p.). Merchants--England--London--History--18th
century; London (England)--Commerce--United States--History--18th century;
United States--Commerce--England--London--History--18th century; London
(England)--History--18th century.
Nelly Hanna (1998).
Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of
Isma'il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University
Press, 219 p.). Abu Taqiyya, Isma'il, d. 1625?; Merchants--Egypt--Biography;
Family--Egypt--History; Egypt--Commerce--History.
Virginia D. Harrington (1964).
The New York Merchant on the Eve of the
Revolution. (Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 389 p. [orig. pub. 1935]).
Merchants--United States; Industries--New York (State)--New York; Fur trade--New
York (State)--Albany--History--18th century; New York (N.Y.)--Commerce--History;
New York (N.Y.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Edward H. Hart (2001).
Andrew Elliot's Philadelphia Odyssey: His Early
Years, 1728-1764: The Story of a Young Scottish Merchant in America on His Way
To Becoming a Royal Officer. (Unionville, NY: Royal Fireworks Pres, 258 p.).
Elliot, Andrew, 1728-1797; American loyalists--Biography;
Scots--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography;
Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography; Philadelphia
(Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Economic
conditions--18th century; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography; Edinburgh
(Scotland)--Biography.
Ed. Jocelyn Hemming and Nancy Thurley; foreword by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
(1994).
A Merchant's Tale: The Life and Adventures of a Nineteenth Century
Scottish Trader. (Braunton, Devon, GB: Merlin, 178 p.). Macintyre, James
Johnson, 1794-1872; Merchants--Scotland--Biography;
Travelers--Scotland--Biography; Adventure and adventurers--Scotland--Biography;
Scotland--Biography; Shipping Merchant ships Personnel; Scotland.
Theodore B. Hodges (1994).
Erastus Hodges, 1781-1847: Connecticut
Manufacturer, Merchant & Entrepreneur. (West Kennebunk, ME: Published for
the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors and the Torrington
Historical Society by Phoenix Pub., 360 p.). Hodges, Erastus, 1781-1847;
Businesspeople--Connecticut--Torrington--Biography;
Industrialists--Connecticut--Torrington--Biography;
Merchants--Connecticut--Torrington--Biography; Manufacturing
industries--Connecticut--Torrington--History--19th century; Torrington
(Conn.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
Allan Stanley Horlick (1975).
Country Boys and Merchant Princes; The
Social Control of Young Men in New York. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University
Press [278 p.). Merchants--New York (State)--New York--History; Occupational
mobility--New York (State)--New York--History; New York (N.Y.)--Social
conditions.
Phyllis Whitman Hunter (2001).
Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World:
Massachusetts Merchants, 1670-1780. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
224 p.). Merchants--Massachusetts; Consumption (Economics)--Social
aspects--Massachusetts; Massachusetts--Economic conditions;
Massachusetts--Commerce--Europe; Europe--Commerce--Massachusetts;
Massachusetts--Social life and customs; Massachusetts--History--Colonial period,
ca. 1600-1775; Massachusetts--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Mahmood Ibrahim (1990).
Merchant Capital and Islam. (Austin, TX:
University of Texas Press, 246 p.). Merchants--Islamic Empire;
Economics--Religious aspects--Islam; Islam--Economic aspects; Islamic
Empire--Commerce; Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--Commerce--History; Mecca (Saudi
Arabia)--Economic conditions.
Richard R. Johnson (1991).
John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer: A Life
Between Empires. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 194 p.). Nelson,
John, d. 1734; Adventure and adventurers--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography;
Merchants--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography; Boston (Mass.)--Biography; Boston
(Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Christine Adams Jones (1983). Col. James Gordon, Merchant of
Lancaster County, Virginia. (Lancaster, VA: Mary Ball Washington
Museum & Library, 120 p.). Gordon, James, 1714-1768; Gordon family;
Merchants--Virginia--Lancaster County--Biography; Lancaster County
(Va.)--Biography.
Benjamin Z. Kedar (1976).
Merchants in Crisis: Genoese and Venetian Men of
Affairs and the Fourteenth-Century Depression. (New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 260 p.). Commerce--History--Medieval, 500-1500;
Depressions--Italy--History; Merchants--Italy--History; Venice
(Italy)--Commerce--History; Genoa (Italy)--Commerce--History.
Jenny Kermode (1998).
Medieval Merchants: York, Beverley, and Hull in the
Later Middle Ages. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 381 p.).
Merchants--England--History; Woolen goods industry--England--History; Middle
Ages; England--Commerce--History; England--Economic conditions--1066-1485;
England--Social conditions--1066-1485. Series: Cambridge studies in medieval
life and thought.
Cynthia A. Kierner (1992).
Traders and Gentlefolk: The Livingstons of New
York, 1675-1790. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 283 p.). Livingston
family; Elite (Social sciences)--New York (State)--History--18th century;
Gentry--New York (State)--History--18th century; Merchants--New York
(State)--History--18th century; Elite (Social sciences)--New York
(State)--History--17th century; Gentry--New York (State)--History--17th century;
Merchants--New York (State)--History--17th century; New York
(State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; New York
(State)--History--1775-1865.
Benjamin W. Labaree (1975).
Patriots and Partisans: The Merchants of
Newburyport, 1764-1815. (New York, NY: Norton, 242 p.).
Merchants--Newburyport, Mass; Newburyport (Mass.)--Politics and government;
Newburyport (Mass.)--Economic conditions.
Frederic C. Lane (1967). Andrea Barbarigo, Merchant of Venice, 1418-1449.
(New York, NY: Octagon Books, 224 p.). Barbarigo, Andrea, 1398 or 9-1449;
Merchants--Italy--Venice--Biography; Venice (Italy)--Commerce--History--To 1500.
Marilyn Anne Lavin (1978).
William Bostwick, Connecticut Yankee in
Antebellum Georgia. (New York, NY: Arno Press. Bostwick, William, b. 1796;
Merchants--Georgia--Biography; Cotton trade--Georgia--History. Series:
Dissertations in American economic history.
Cle Lesger; translated by J.C. Grayson (2006).
The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants,
Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low
Countries, c. 1550-1630. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 326 p.).
Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History (University of
Amsterdam). Merchants--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--16th century;
Merchants--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century; Amsterdam
(Netherlands)--Commerce--History--16th century; Amsterdam
(Netherlands)--Commerce--History--17th century;
Netherlands--History--Wars of Independence, 1556-1648.
Amplifies the
importance of the service sector, played very modern role in
establishing, maintaining Amsterdam's preeminence.
T.H. Lloyd (1982).
Alien Merchants in England in the High Middle Ages.
(New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 253 p.). Merchants,
Foreign--England--History--To 1500; England--Economic conditions--1066-1485;
England--Commerce--History.
Richard John Lufrano (1997).
Honorable Merchants: Commerce and
Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China. (Honolulu, HI: University
of Hawai'i Press, 241 p.). Merchants--China--History; Business
ethics--China--History; China--Commerce--History; China--Economic
conditions--1644-1912.
Issac S. Lyon; introduction by Graham Hodges (1984).
Recollections
of An Old Cartman: Old New York Street Life. (New York, NY: New York
Bound, 125 p. [orig. pub. 1872). Lyon, Isaac S., 1812?-1882; Carriages
and carts--New York (State)--New York; Booksellers and bookselling--New
York (State)--New York--History--19th century; Auctions--New York
(State)--New York--History--19th century; Merchants--New York
(N.Y.)--Biography; Carters--New York (N.Y.)--Biography; New York
(N.Y.)--Social life and customs; New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
Susan Mann (1987).
Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950.
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 278 p.). Merchants--China--History;
Bureaucracy--China--History; Tax collection--China--History; China--Commercial
policy.
J.P. Marshall (1976).
East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the
Eighteenth Century. (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 284 p.). East India
Company; Merchants--Great Britain--History--18th century;
Merchants--India--Bengal--History--18th century;
British--India--Bengal--History--18th century; Bengal
(India)--Commerce--History.
Margaret E. Martin (1939). Merchants and Trade of the Connecticut River
Valley, 1750-1820. (Northampton, MA: Smith College (Dept. of History), 284
p.). Merchants, American; Connecticut River Valley--Commerce. Series: Smith
College studies in history.
Cathy Matson (1998).
Merchants & Empire: Trading in Colonial New York.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 458 p.). Merchants--New York
(State)--New York--History--17th century; Merchants--New York (State)--New
York--History--18th century; Wholesale trade--New York (State)--New
York--History--17th century; Wholesale trade--New York (State)--New
York--History--18th century; New York (N.Y.)--Commerce--History--17th century;
New York (N.Y.)--Commerce--History--18th century; Great
Britain--Colonies--America--Commerce--History.
Douglas McCalla (1979).
The Upper Canada Trade, 1834-72: A Study of the Buchanans’ Business.
(Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 231 p.). Buchanan, Isaac,
1810-1883; Wholesale trade --Ontario --History; Merchants --Ontario
--Biography; Ontario --Commerce --History.
Graeme J. Milne (2000).
Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool:
Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port. (Liverpool, UK:
Liverpool University Press, 243 p.).
Merchants--England--Liverpool--History--19th century; Liverpool
(England)--Commerce.
Charles Monaghan (1998).
The Murrays of Murray Hill. (Brooklyn, NY:
Urban History Press, 166 p.). Murray family; Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826;
Merchants--New York (State)--New York--Biography; Quakers--New York (State)--New
York--Biography; American loyalists--Biography; Enlightenment--Scotland;
Authors, American--Biography; New York (N.Y.)--Biography; New York
(N.Y.)--History--1775-1865; United States--History--Revolution,
1775-1783--Biography.
Sam A. Mustafa (2001).
Merchants and Migrations: Germans and
Americans in Connection, 1776-1835. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 284
p.). Merchants--United States--History; Merchants--Germany--History;
United States--Commerce--Germany--History; Germany--Commerce--United
States--History; United States--Emigration and immigration--History;
Germany--Emigration and immigration--History; United States--Foreign
economic relations--Germany; Germany--Foreign economic relations--United
States.
Somendra Chandra Nandy (1978-1981). Life and Times of Cantoo Baboo (Krisna
Kanta Nandy), the Banian of Warren Hastings: Period Covered, 1742-1804.
(Bombay, India: Allied, 2 vols.). Nandy, Krisna Kanta, 1720-1794; Silk
industry--Bengal; Salt industry and trade--Bengal; Merchants--Bengal--Biography;
Bengal (India)--History.
Iris Origo (1979).
The Merchant of Prato, Francesco di Marco Datini.
(New York, NY: Octagon Books, 389 p. [orig. pub. 1963]). Datini, Francesco di
Marco, 1335 (ca.)-1410; Merchants--Italy--Biography.
Edward C. Papenfuse (1975). In Pursuit of Profit: The Annapolis Merchants
in the Era of the American Revolution, 1763-1805. (Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 288 p.). Merchants--Maryland--Annapolis--History;
Annapolis (Md.)--Commerce--History; Annapolis (Md.)--Economic conditions.
Ruth Pike (1966).
Enterprise and Adventure; The Genoese in Seville and the
Opening of the New World. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 243 p.).
Merchants, Genoese--Seville; Seville (Spain)--Commerce--America;
America--Commerce--Seville.
Carolyn Podruchny (2006).
Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American
Fur Trade. (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 414 p.).
Assistant Professor of History (York University, Toronto).
French-Canadians--North America--History; Fur trade--North
America--History; Fur trade--New France--History; Fur traders--North
America--History; Fur traders--New France--History; Me´tis--North
America--History; Indians of North America--History; Frontier and
pioneer life--North America; North America--Description and travel;
Saint Lawrence River Valley--Description and travel.
French Canadian
workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, staffed interior
posts of northern North American fur trade became known as
voyageurs. Author reveals voyageurs’ lives, world views, values, impact
on social, cultural landscape of North America.
Kenneth W. Porter (1969). The Jacksons and the Lees; Two
Generations of Massachusetts Merchants, 1765-1844. (New York,
NY: Russell & Russell, 2 vols.; 1625 p. [orig. pub. 1937]).
Jackson family; Lee family; Massachusetts--Commerce--History.
Theodore K. Rabb (1967).
Enterprise & Empire; Merchant and Gentry Investment in the Expansion of
England, 1575-1630. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
420 p.). Colonial companies; Merchants--England--History--16th century;
Merchants--England--History--17th century; Gentry--England; Great
Britain--Commerce--History--16th century; Great
Britain--Commerce--History--17th century.
Pamela Rae (1992).
Turtle at Mr Humble's: The Fortunes of a Mercantile
Family: England & America, 1758-1837. (Otley, W. Yorkshire, GB: Smith
Settle,, 236 p.). Buck family; Whitaker family; Merchants--England--Bradford
(West Yorkshire)--Biography; Merchants--South Carolina--Charleston--Biography;
Bradford (West Yorkshire, England)--Biography; Charleston (S.C.)--Biography;
Social life History, 1714-1837.
James A. Ramage (1974).
John Wesley Hunt, Pioneer Merchant, Manufacturer,
and Financier. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 103 p.). Hunt,
John Wesley, 1772-1849; Capitalists and financiers--Kentucky--Biography;
Frontier and pioneer life--Kentucky; Merchants--Kentucky--Biography.
Vera Blinn Reber (1979).
British Mercantile Houses in Buenos Aires,
1810-1880. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 206 p.). Mercantile
system--Argentina--History; Merchants--Argentina--History; Merchants--Great
Britain--History; Great Britain--Commerce--Argentina--History;
Argentina--Commerce--Great Britain--History. Series: Harvard studies in business
history.
E. E. Rich (1967). The Fur Trade and the Northwest to 1857.
(Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 336 p.). Fur trade--Canada.
Alfred J. Rieber (1982).
Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. (Chapel Hill,
NC: University of North Carolina Press, 464 p.). Merchants--Soviet
Union--History; Capitalists and financiers--Soviet Union--History;
Russia--Social conditions--1801-1917.
Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Henry Roseveare (1987).
Markets and Merchants of the Late Seventeenth Century: The
Marescoe-David Letters, 1668-1680. (New York, NY: Published for
the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, 668 p.). David,
Jacob; Marescoe, Charles; Merchants --Europe --Biography; Commerce
--History --17th century. Picture of changing
conditions of local, international markets in 17th-century Europe; important epoch in evolution of
European trade.
Thomas Max Safley (1999).
Matheus Miller's Memoir: A Merchant's Life in
the Seventeenth Century. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. Miller, Matheus;
Merchants--Germany--Augsburg--Biography; Augsburg (Germany)--Biography; Augsburg
(Germany)--History--17th century. Series: Early modern history.
Carolyn Sargentson (1996).
Merchants and Luxury Markets: The Marchands
Merciers of Eighteenth-Century Paris. (Malibu, CA: Victoria and Albert
Museum in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, 224 p.).
Merchants--France--Paris--History--18th century;
Luxuries--France--Paris--History--18th century; Paris
(France)--Commerce--History--18th century; Paris (France)--Social life and
customs.
Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson (1971).
Merchant Prince of
Boston, Colonel T. H. Perkins, 1764-1854 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 478 p.). Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854.
Charles David Sheldon (1973).
The Rise of the Merchant Class in Tokugawa
Japan, 1600-1868; An Introductory Survey. (New York, NY: Russell & Russell,
220 p. [orig. pub. 1958]). Merchants--Japan; Japan--Commerce--History.
Jerrell H. Shofner (1978).
Daniel Ladd, Merchant Prince of Frontier
Florida. (Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 180 p.). Ladd,
Daniel, 1817-1872; Frontier and pioneer life--Florida;
Businesspeople--Florida--Biography; Merchants--Florida--Biography.
Janet Siskind (2002).
Rum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant
Family, 1795-1850. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,.
Merchants--Connecticut; Connecticut--Commerce--History.
Susan Migden Socolow (1978). The Merchants of Buenos Aires, 1778-1810:
Family and Commerce. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press,.
Merchants--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History.
Birgit Sonesson (2000). Puerto Rico’s Commerce, 1765-1865: From
Regional to Worldwide Market Relations. (Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Latin
American Center Publications, 338 p.). Merchants --Puerto Rico
--History; Agricultural industries --Puerto Rico --History; Shipping
--Puerto Rico --History; Puerto Rico --Commerce --History; Puerto Rico
--Commercial policy --History.
Peter Spufford (2003). Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval
Europe. (New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 432 p.).
Merchants--Europe--History; Europe--Commerce--History.
P.K. Stembridge (1998).
The Goldney Family: A Bristol Merchant Dynasty.
(Bristol, UK: Bristol Record Society, 173 p.). Goldney family;
Merchants--England--Bristol--Biography; Bristol (England)--Genealogy;
England--Genealogy; Bristol (England)--History--Sources.
Margaret Steven (1965). Merchant Campbell, 1769-1846; A Study of
Colonial Trade. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 360 p.).
Campbell, Robert, 1769-1846.
Laura Caroline Stevenson (1984).
Praise and Paradox: Merchants and
Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 252 p.). Popular literature--England--History and criticism;
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Literature
and society--England--History--16th century; Fur trade--New York
(State)--Albany--History--18th century; Popular culture--England--History--16th
century; Businessmen in literature; Artisans in literature; Merchants--England;
Artisans--England.
R. C. J. Stone (1982).
Young Logan Campbell. (Auckland, NZ:
Oxford University Press, 287 p.). Campbell, John Logan, 1817-1912;
Auckland (N.Z.)--Biography.
Jacob Strieder; translated by Mildred L. Hartsough; edited by N.S.B. Gras
(1984).
Jacob Fugger the Rich: Merchant and Banker of Augsburg, 1459-1525.
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, [orig. pub. 1931]). Fugger, Jakob, 1459-1525;
Merchants--Germany--Biography; Bankers--Germany--Biography;
Germany--Commerce--History--15th century; Germany--Commerce--History--16th
century.
Anne F. Sutton (2005).
The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130-1578.
(Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub., 670 p.). Dry-goods --England --London
--History; Textile industry --England --London --History; Merchants
--England --London --History; London (England) --Commerce --History.
Arthur Loreston Throckmorton (1961). Oregon Argonauts: Merchant
Adventurers on the Western Frontier. (Portland, OR: Oregon Historical
Society, 372 p.). Merchants, American; Frontier and pioneer life--Oregon.
Sylvia L. Thrupp (1989).
The Merchant Class of Medieval London, 1300-1500.
(Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 401 p. [orig. pub. 1948]).
Merchants--England--London--History--To 1500; London
(England)--Commerce--History--To 1500; London (England)--Social life and
customs--To 1500; London (England)--History--To 1500.
Frederick B. Tolles (1978).
James Logan and the Culture of Provincial
America. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 228 p. [orig. pub. 1957]). Logan,
James, 1674-1751; Merchants--Pennsylvania--Biography;
Pioneers--Pennsylvania--Biography; Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca.
1600-1775.
Elva Tooker (1955). Nathan Trotter, Philadelphia Merchant,
1787-1853 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 276 p.).
Trotter, Nathan, 1787-1853; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Commerce.
ed. James D. Tracy (1990).
The Rise of Merchant Empires:
Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750. (New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press, 442 p.). International
trade--History--Congresses; Shipping--History--Congresses;
Merchants--History--Congresses; Europe--Commerce--History--Congresses.
--- (1991).
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires. (New
York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 504 p.). International
trade--History--Congresses; Shipping--History--Congresses;
Merchants--History--Congresses; Europe--Commerce--History--Congresses.
Carmel Vassallo (1997). Corsairing to Commerce: Maltese Merchants in XVIII
Century Spain. (Valletta: Malta University Publishers,, 378 p.). Merchants,
Foreign--Spain--History--18th century; Maltese--Spain--History--18th century;
Merchants--Malta--History--18th century.
Richard Waterhouse (2005).
A New World Gentry: The Making of a Merchant and Planter Class in South
Carolina, 1670-1770. (Charleston, SC: History Press, 218 p.).
Upper class --South Carolina --History --17th century; Upper class
--South Carolina --History --18th century; Gentry --South Carolina
--History --17th century; Gentry --South Carolina --History --18th
century; Plantation owners --South Carolina --History; Merchants --South
Carolina --History; South Carolina --History --Colonial period, ca.
1600-1775; South Carolina --Social conditions; South Carolina --Economic
conditions; South Carolina --Politics and government --To 1775.
Cultural
dynamics of colonial South Carolina’s master class - establishment, economic growth of colony in correlation with cultural development of
elite planter and merchant classes.
Glenn Weaver (1956).
Jonathan Trumbull, Connecticut's Merchant
Magistrate, 1710-1785. (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical
Society, 182 p.). Trumbull, Jonathan, 1710-1785.
Philip L. White; with an introduction by Fenwick Beekman (1956). The
Beekmans of New York in Politics and Commerce, 1647-1877. (New York, NY:
New-York Historical Society under a grant from the Beekman Family Association,
705 p.). Beekman family; Merchants--New York (State)--New York; New York
(N.Y.)--Politics and government--To 1898.
Thomas S. Willan (1970).
An Eighteenth-Century Shopkeeper, Abraham Dent of
Kirkby Stephen. (New York, NY: A.M. Kelley, 208 p.). Dent, Abraham,
1729-1803; Stores, Retail--England--History--18th century;
Merchants--England--Biography.
N. J. Williams (1988).
The Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports,
1550-1590. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 321 p.). Merchant
marine--England--East Anglia--History--16th century; Harbors--England--East
Anglia--History--16th century; Merchants--England--East Anglia--History--16th
century; Smugglers--England--East Anglia--History--16th century; East Anglia
(England)--Commerce--History--16th century.
Richard G. Wilson (1971).
Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds,
1700-1830. (New York, NY: A.M. Kelley, 271 p.). Merchants--Leeds (England);
Leeds (England)--Commerce--History.
Richardson Little Wright (1976).
Hawkers & Walkers in Early America. (New York, NY: Arno Press,
317 p. [orig. pub. 1927]). Peddlers and peddling--United
States--History; Retail trade--United States--History; United
States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.
Zoe Yalland (1987). Traders and Nabobs: The British in Cawnpore, 1765-1857.
(Wilton, Salisbury, Wiltshire: M. Russell, 376 p.). British--India--K¯anpur--History;
Merchants--India--K¯anpur--History; K¯anpur (India)--History; K¯anpur
(India)--Ethnic relations.
Jean Zimmerman (2006).
The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a
Fortune, and a Dynasty. (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 399 p.).
Philipse, Margaret Hardenbroeck; Philipse, Margaret Hardenbroeck
--Family; Phillips family; Women merchants --New Netherland --Biography;
Merchants --New Netherland --Biography; New Netherland --Biography; New
Netherland --Commerce --History; New Netherland --Social conditions; New
York (State) --History --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --Biography.
1659 - Hardenbroeck Philipse (22) arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland; built
empire of trading ships, furs, real estate that included all of
Westchester County; became wealthiest in colony.
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