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Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680–1830: Perspectives in Economic and Social History

Autor Dominique Margairaz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 ian 2016
Merchant activity across Europe, America and China during the long eighteenth century is explored in this collection of essays. Using a unique data set from accounts and correspondence, contributors are able to show the fragmented nature of merchant activity and the importance of trust-based social and cultural networks.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138663176
ISBN-10: 1138663174
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Perspectives in Economic and Social History

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: The Many Scales of Merchant Profit: Accounting for Norms, Practices and Results in the Age of Commerce, Pierre Gervais, Yannick Lemarchand, Dominique Margairaz; Chapter 1 The Current Account As Cognitive Artefact: Stories and Accounts of La Maison Chaurand, Yannick Lemarchand, Cheryl McWatters, Laure Pineau-Defois; Chapter 2 Why Profit and Loss Didn’t Matter: The Historicized Rationality of Early Modern Merchant Accounting, Pierre Gervais; Chapter 3 Terms of Payment in Retailing: A Tool for Fostering Customer Loyalty or a Form of Managerial Constraint? A Few Observations Based on Accounting from Lorraine in the Eighteenth Century, Julien Villain; Chapter 4 The Wings of a Butterfly: Private Creditor Strategies in the ‘Chinese Debts’ Crisis of 1779–80, Frederic GrantJr; Chapter 5 The Transatlantic Flow of Price Information in the Spanish Colonial Trade, 1680–1820, Xabier Lamikiz; Chapter 6 Product Quality and Merchant Transactions: Product Lines and Hierarchies in the Accounts and Letters of the Gradis Merchant House, Dominique Margairaz, Darla Rudy-Gervais; Chapter 7 The Pinet Family of Gap and Their Business Relations, 1785–1816: Official Activities and the Issue of Commercial Risk, Boris Deschanel, Darla Rudy-Gervais; Chapter 8 ‘The Way to Make a Huge Fortune, Easily and Without Risk’: Economic Strategy and Tactics Among Tobaccosouth Planters in the Early National United States, Steven Sarson; concl Conclusion: Reorienting Early Modern Economic History: Merchant Economy, Merchant Capitalism and the Age of Commerce, Robert S. DuPlessis;

Notă biografică

Pierre Gervais, Dominique Margairaz, Yannick Lemarchand

Descriere

Merchant activity across Europe, America and China during the long eighteenth century is explored in this collection of essays. Using a unique data set from accounts and correspondence, contributors are able to show the fragmented nature of merchant activity and the importance of trust-based social and cultural networks.