Dominique Margairaz

Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680-1830 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317317944
• Artikelnr.: 43589306

Autorenporträt

Pierre Gervais, Dominique Margairaz, Yannick Lemarchand

Inhaltsangabe

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;