Merchants

Author : Edmond Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300264494

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Merchants by Edmond Smith Pdf

A new history of English trade and empire—revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain In the century following Elizabeth I’s rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Through the efforts of these "mere merchants," England developed from a peripheral power on the fringes of Europe to a country at the center of a global commercial web, with interests stretching from Virginia to Ahmadabad and Arkhangelsk to Benin. Edmond Smith traces the lives of English merchants from their earliest steps into business to the heights of their successes. Smith unpicks their behavior, relationships, and experiences, from exporting wool to Russia, importing exotic luxuries from India, and building plantations in America. He reveals that the origins of "global" Britain are found in the stories of these men whose livelihoods depended on their skills, entrepreneurship, and ability to work together to compete in cutthroat international markets. As a community, their efforts would come to revolutionize Britain’s relationship with the world.

Author : James C. Anderson,Nirmalya Kumar,James A. Narus
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422131077

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Value Merchants by James C. Anderson,Nirmalya Kumar,James A. Narus Pdf

Do your salespeople feel under extreme pressure to retain accounts or gain new business at any cost? If so, you may be leaving big money on the table. Consider the integrated-circuit supplier representative who lost $500,000 of potential profit on a single transaction, just to "win" a deal that he would have closed anyway at the higher price. Do not make price concessions. Become a value merchant instead. In this authoritative book, James Anderson, Nirmalya Kumar, and James Narus explain how companies in business markets can use customer value management techniques to estimate the value of your market offerings, create value propositions that resonate with your customers, and maximize the return you will get on the superior value that you deliver. Drawing on extensive research and detailed case studies of companies like Sonoco, Tata Steel, and Quaker Chemical, Value Merchants will change the mindset and behavior of your executives, sales management, representatives, and marketers—as well as your customers.

Author : Tim Wu
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804170048

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The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu Pdf

From the author of the award-winning The Master Switch, who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. "Dazzling." —Financial Times Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention. This condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. Wu’s narrative begins in the nineteenth century, when Benjamin Day discovered he could get rich selling newspapers for a penny. Since then, every new medium—from radio to television to Internet companies such as Google and Facebook—has attained commercial viability and immense riches by turning itself into an advertising platform. Since the early days, the basic business model of “attention merchants” has never changed: free diversion in exchange for a moment of your time, sold in turn to the highest-bidding advertiser. Full of lively, unexpected storytelling and piercing insight, The Attention Merchants lays bare the true nature of a ubiquitous reality we can no longer afford to accept at face value.

Author : Joseph Sassoon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241388662

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The Global Merchants by Joseph Sassoon Pdf

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. This book reveals the secrets behind the family's phenomenal success: how a handful of Jewish exiles from Ottoman Baghdad forged a mercantile juggernaut from their new home in colonial Bombay, the vast network of agents, informants and politicians they built, and the way they came to bridge East and West, culturally as well as commercially. As one competitor remarked, 'silver and gold, silks, gums and spices, opium and cotton, wool and wheat - whatever moves over sea or land feels the hand or bears the mark of Sassoon & Co.' Drawing for the first time on the vast family archives, Joseph Sassoon brings vividly to life a succession of remarkable characters. From a single generation: Flora, the first woman to steer a major global business, Siegfried, the poet, and Victor, the tycoon who drew the stars of Hollywood's silent era to his skyscraper in Shanghai. Through the lives these ambitious figures built for themselves in London, Bombay and beyond, the reader is drawn into a captivating world of politics and power, innovation and intrigue, high society and empire. The Global Merchants is thus at once an intimate portrait of a single family and a panorama of the hundred and thirty years of their prominence: from the Opium Wars and opening of China to the American Civil War, the establishment of the British Raj to India's independence. Together these give a fresh perspective on the evolution of one of the defining forces of their age and the present: globalization. The Sassoons were variously its agents, advocates and casualties, and watching them moving through the world, we perceive the making of our own.

Author : Naomi Oreskes,Erik M. Conway
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781408828779

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Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes,Erik M. Conway Pdf

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Commerce
ISBN : OSU:32435051157790

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Hunt's Merchants' Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dominique Margairaz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317317951

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Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680–1830 by Dominique Margairaz Pdf

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.

Author : Wm. H. Cockshutt
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525502651

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Merchants Exchange by Wm. H. Cockshutt Pdf

The MERCHANTS EXCHANGE is a lively history, primarily about Ignatius Cockshutt, his entrepreneurial skills, and his contributions to the development of the City of Brantford, Canada, from 1832 to 1962. Following a brief ancestral history of the Cockshutt family in England, it then tells of their emigration to York (Toronto) and the family store there in 1828. The story then tells how young Ignatius builds an empire, becomes wealthy, and is instrumental in building Brantford into a world class manufacturing city. Ignatius’s nine children follow his example and continue his good work, making fine contributions to the industrial and political growth of Canada. The MERCHANTS EXCHANGE is built from private family records including six wonderful Letterbooks, which are exact copies of personal and business correspondence, written by Ignatius Cockshutt between 1832 and 1898, making the story not only factual, but also a gold-mine of genuine historical information. You will enjoy every line of this wonderful chronicle about an early Canadian entrepreneur, and his contributions to Canada.

Author : Manuel Herrero Sánchez,Klemens Kaps
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317282136

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Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800 by Manuel Herrero Sánchez,Klemens Kaps Pdf

This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the movement of goods, capital, information and cultural objects between different commercial maritime systems in the Mediterranean and Atlantic basin. Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800 consists of four thematic blocs: theoretical considerations, the social composition of networks, connected spaces, networks between formal and informal exchange, as well as possible failures of ties. This edited volume features eleven contributions who deal with theoretical concepts such as social network analysis, globalization, social capital and trust. In addition, several chapters analyze the coexistence of mono-cultural and transnational networks, deal with network failure and shifting network geographies, and assess the impact of kinship for building up international networks between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This work evaluates the use of specific network types for building up connections across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Basin stretching out to Central Europe, the Northern Sea and the Pacific. This book is of interest to those who study history of economics and maritime economics, as well as historians and scholars from other disciplines working on maritime shipping, port studies, migration, foreign mercantile communities, trade policies and mercantilism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Commerce
ISBN : MINN:31951D00319607H

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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Freeman Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10291132

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Merchants' Magazine and commercial Review by Freeman Hunt Pdf

Author : Timothy Shay Arthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:088020068

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The Two Merchants; Or, Solvent and Insolvent ... by Timothy Shay Arthur Pdf

Author : John B. Thompson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509528943

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Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson Pdf

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination of economic pressures and technological change is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think hard about the future of the books in the digital age. In this book - the first major study of trade publishing for more than 30 years - Thompson situates the current challenges facing the industry in an historical context, analysing the transformation of trade publishing in the United States and Britain since the 1960s. He gives a detailed account of how the world of trade publishing really works, dissecting the roles of publishers, agents and booksellers and showing how their practices are shaped by a field that has a distinctive structure and dynamic. This new paperback edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the most recent developments, including the dramatic increase in ebook sales and its implications for the publishing industry and its future.

Author : Frederik Pohl,Cyril M. Kornbluth
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0312906552

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The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl,Cyril M. Kornbluth Pdf

Author : Robert Zubrin
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641770057

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Merchants of Despair by Robert Zubrin Pdf

There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for—indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, a species whose aspirations and appetites are endangering the natural order. This is the core of antihumanism. Merchants of Despair traces the pedigree of this ideology and exposes its deadly consequences in startling and horrifying detail. The book names the chief prophets and promoters of antihumanism over the last two centuries, from Thomas Malthus through Paul Ehrlich and Al Gore. It exposes the worst crimes perpetrated by the antihumanist movement, including eugenics campaigns in the United States and genocidal anti-development and population-control programs around the world. Combining riveting tales from history with powerful policy arguments, Merchants of Despair provides scientific refutations to antihumanism’s major pseudo-scientific claims, including its modern tirades against nuclear power, pesticides, population growth, biotech foods, resource depletion, industrial development, and, most recently, fear-mongering about global warming. Merchants of Despair exposes this dangerous agenda and makes the definitive scientific and moral case against it.