The Indian Traders

Author : Frank McNitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806122137
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Traders written by Frank McNitt and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We have no concept of Indian traders to match our nearly universal picture of the American cowboy, the cavalryman of Indian-fighting days, or the pioneer settler who followed in their wake,” wrote Frank McNitt. In The Indian Traders men like Lorenzo Hubbell of Ganado Trading Post and Thomas Keam, hidden in his canyon, are put into perspective, no longer merely shadowy figures moving through the history of the West. In the Southwest, traders like John D. Lee, Thomas Keam, and old Dan DuBois, moving far ahead of the homesteaders, realized their effectiveness as an influence for the Indians' good. While Indian agents often served their own interests—financial, religious, or political—traders knew that if Indians did not achieve a greater degree of prosperity, traders could never succeed. Whether it was Keam rescuing the Navahos from Agent William F. M. Arny's exploitation and offering his buildings for a Hopi school, Frank Noel mediating their differences with the government, or John B. Moore publicizing and improving Navaho weaving, traders have helped better the lot of Indian artists. From the Bents and St. Vrain to modern vendors selling jewelry and groceries to tourists, the traders of New Mexico and Arizona have been the bridge between cultures. Based on interviews, letters, and unpublished documents, The Indian Traders helps complete the history of the Southwest.

Author : Frank McNitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Traders written by Frank McNitt and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Preston E. Miller
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Winds Guide to Indian Trade Goods & Replicas written by Preston E. Miller and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 800 color photographs of trade goods to American Indians over 150 years are featured as well as trade beads, frontier & military goods, stone relics, photographs, paper, and modern replicas, all identified in detail with auction estimates and prices realized. These relics are avidly sought by museums and individuals alike. The authors trade at Four Winds Indain Trading Post, St. Ignatius, Montana. You cannot find a more accurate reference.

Author : Claude Markovits
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139431277
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947 written by Claude Markovits and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Markovits tells the story of two groups of Hindu merchants from the towns of Shikarpur and Hyderabad in the province of Sind. Basing his account on previously neglected archival sources, the author charts the development of these communities, from the pre-colonial period through colonial conquest and up to independence, describing how they came to control trading networks throughout the world. While the book focuses on the trade of goods, money and information from Sind to the widely dispersed locations of Kobe, Panama, Bukhara and Cairo, it also throws light on the nature of trading diasporas from South Asia in their interaction with the global economy. This is a sophisticated and accessible book, written by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field. It will appeal to scholars of South Asia, as well as to colonial historians and to students of religion.

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Burt Franklin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by Burt Franklin. This book was released on 1891 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Frederic Dale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521525978
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 written by Stephen Frederic Dale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable 1994 work of comparative economic history, Stephen Dale studies the activities and economic significance of the Indian mercantile communities which traded in Iran, Central Asia and Russia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author uses Russian sources, hitherto largely ignored, to show that these merchants represented part of the hegemonic trade diaspora of the Indian world economy, thus challenging the conventional interpretation of world economic history that European merchants overwhelmed their Asian counterparts in the early modern era. The book not only demonstrates the vitality of Indian mercantile capitalism, but also offers a unique insight into the social characteristics of an Indian expatriate trading community in the Volga-Caspian port of Astrakhan.

Author : Ranabir Chakravarti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000170128
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society written by Ranabir Chakravarti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting diverse types of market places and merchants, this book situates the commercial scenario of early India (up to c. ad 1300) in the overall agrarian material milieu of the subcontinent. The book questions the stereotypical narrative of early Indian trade as exchanges in small quantity, exotic, portable luxury items and strongly argues for the significance of trade in relatively inexpensive bulk commodities – including agrarian/floral products – at local and regional levels and also in long distance trade. That staple items had salience in the sea-borne trade of early India figures prominently in this book which points out that commercial exchanges touched the everyday life of a variety of people. A major feature of this work is the conspicuous thrust on and attention to the sea-borne commerce in the subcontinent. The history of Indic seafaring in the Indian Ocean finds a prominent place in this book pointing out the braided histories of overland and maritime networks in the subcontinent. In addition to three specific chapters on the maritime profile of early Bengal, the third edition of Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society offers two new chapters (14 and 15) on the commercial scenario of Gujarat, dealing respectively with an organization of merchants during the early sixth century ad and with the long-term linkages between money-circulation and overseas trade in Gujarat c. ad 500-1500). A new preface to the Third Edition discusses the emerging historiographical issues in the history of trade in early India. Rich in the interrogation of a wide variety of primary sources, the book analyses the changing perspectives on early Indian trade by taking into account the current literature on the subject.

Author : C. Markovits
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230594867
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs written by C. Markovits and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with three main aspects of the history of Indian business: The relationship between business and politics, the position of merchants and businessmen in the economy and society of late colonial India, and how particular merchant networks extended the range of their operations to the entire subcontinent and the wider world.

Author : Surendra Gopal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351987372
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born to Trade written by Surendra Gopal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work traces migration of Indian traders to Russia, Iran, West Asia and South-East Asia in medieval times. Four essays throw light on the activities of the Indian business community in Russia. Generally Indians came to Russia via Iran. There they took a boat, crossed the Caspian Sea and reached the Russian port of Astrakhan. Indian visitors included Hindus (including Jains), Muslims, Christians, Parsis among others. Hindus constituted the largest segment of the migrants. They became an object of local curiosity because of their rituals and social practices. They also became an object of jealousy. Indians did not enjoy political and administrative support as the European East India Companies did. Occasionally local rulers consulted them and sought their advice. Three essays deal with Indian traders in Iran in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. One essay discusses trade between India and Iran in the fifteenth century. There are papers discussing activities of Indian traders in West Asia, Yemen and South East Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The conclusion focuses on Indian merchants and the Indian Ocean in medieval times. The author concludes that Indian traders did not enjoy political and royal support, essential for success. He also affirms that crossing the seas did not lead to social boycott by their caste-men. This taboo came much later, probably with the advent of British rule in the nineteenth century.

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: