The Shaping of the American Tradition, Volume 1Louis Morton Hacker, Helene Sara Zahler Begins with the European world from which the Americans came, to the settling of America, the American Revolution, through the mid 1900's to look at the shaping of the American tradition. |
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... merchants . These were some of the functions performed by the English merchants . If he was a Lon- don merchant , he took the crop of the planter on consignment and charged him a commis- sion of 21⁄2 percent for handling ; this fee , it ...
... merchants . These were some of the functions performed by the English merchants . If he was a Lon- don merchant , he took the crop of the planter on consignment and charged him a commis- sion of 21⁄2 percent for handling ; this fee , it ...
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... merchant pays , and the custom of not breaking packages will almost invariably rule him out ; and he is , of necessity , thrown into the hands of the jobbing merchants of New - York , the keen- est and most adroit dealers known in the ...
... merchant pays , and the custom of not breaking packages will almost invariably rule him out ; and he is , of necessity , thrown into the hands of the jobbing merchants of New - York , the keen- est and most adroit dealers known in the ...
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... merchant , can only be had from another class of merchants , called jobbers . The jobbers , as they want for immediate retail , buy from the importers by the bale or package , and breaking them , sell to country dealers in quantities to ...
... merchant , can only be had from another class of merchants , called jobbers . The jobbers , as they want for immediate retail , buy from the importers by the bale or package , and breaking them , sell to country dealers in quantities to ...
Contents
Background 8 3 The Early Settlers of America 14 4 Early Economic Activities | 24 |
THE ENGLISH HERITAGE | 56 |
THE SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA | 79 |
Copyright | |
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