Merchants of Culture

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely ...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

Reducere. How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade sp...

First woman editor of the }New York Times{ Abramson considers the battle between traditional news sources and upstart digital operators such as VIC...

DescriptionThis distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the...

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply i...

What changes in the material culture can we observe, when a state is overwhelming a local population with soldiers, katoikoi, and civil officials o...

Reducere. The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's hi...

Reducere. DescriptionHistory, as it happened, on both sides of the turbulent rapids at the Sault, dividing a settlement into two countries. In the Upper Peni...

Reducere. A passion for education, opposition to slavery, and yearning for a moral life led Josiah B. Grinnell and his band of like-minded New Englanders to ...

Don Felix Candelaria received the San Clemente Land Grant from the Spanish Royal Government in 1716. The land was later claimed by Don Antonio Jose...

Reducere. Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene - in medicine, politics, the arts, cultur...

Reducere. Although today associated exclusively with Islam, Iran has in fact played an unparalleled role within all the world religions, injecting Iranian id...

From cultural heritage to inspired contemporary jewelry, this book is a journey into the ateliers of the master artisans in the Grand Bazaar of Ist...

Downtown Roanoke celebrates the vibrant history of a community that lies at the heart of the scenic Roanoke Valley. From the saloons and livery sta...

It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppr...

Reducere. Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christi...

After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, the...

DescriptionSince the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked Africa...

Reducere. Six heirlooms - a portrait, a table, a parure, a whiskey label, a set of books, and a building -- tell the stories of six branches of a family whos...

Reducere. The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in th...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, Britain experienced...

Reducere. As Western culture struggles with its addiction to a tragically limited and negative worldview, evidence of our shaman-mystic-scientist past, persi...

Walk in the footsteps of emperors and sultans, marvel at some of the greatest monuments on earth, and experience the wonders of East and West with ...

Reducere. Late-19th-century publications regularly promoted Nebraska's young cities and towns, and Crete was no exception. Settled by homesteaders, merchants...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Edward Rutherfurd, the grand master of the historical novel, comes a dazzling epic about the magnificent city of Par...

Reducere. Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations - whether located in the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, or the Far Eas...

We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hac...

Reducere. The history of black Freemasonry from Boston and Philadelphia in the late 1700s through the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement - Examines the l...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingEgypt in the 13th century was a glorious kingdom to behold. Spice merchants from Euro...

Reducere. From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrum...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of ancient China, then keep reading... To understand present-day China, its politics, so...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient China, then keep reading...To understand present-day China, its politics, society, and c...