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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade ordet merchants.

  1. 16. Cattle for beads : The archaeology of historical contact and trade on the Namib Coast

    Författare :Jill Kinahan; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Historical archaeology; contact; indigenous response; glass trade beads; commercial ceramics; nineteenth century; Namib coast; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : Early contacts between indigenous pastoralists at Walvis Bay on the Namib Coast and Western seafarers are poorly documented and little understood. Trade augmented regional exchange networks with a range, of archaeologically visible and easily identifiable objects. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Gästriklands bergsmän, Kronan och handelskapitalet : Aktörer och institutionella spelregler i bergsmansbruket, 1650-1870

    Författare :Richard Ringmar; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; family archives; proto-industry; iron producing peasants bergsmän ; ironmasters; ironmerchants; institutional framework; economic differentiation; socio-economic conflicts; social status; merchant capital penetration; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : This investigation was originally based on the family archives of the bergsmän (iron producing peasants) in the parishes of Torskåer and Ovansjö in south-west Gästrikland. They gave an insight into a rather unknown proto-industry, run since medieval times by peasant households and flourishing in the 18th and 19th centuries. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Fasta förbindelser : En studie av låntagare hos sparbanken och informella kreditgivare i Sala 1860-1910

    Författare :Hilda Hellgren; Mats Larsson; Gunilla Petersson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; Informal lenders; private bankers; savings banks; Sala; personal relationships; credit; borrowers; lenders; local credit market; probate inventories; trust; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia;

    Sammanfattning : The major question in this thesis is where private persons borrowed on a local credit market in 1860-1910. This study has focused on informal lenders (in other research often referred to as private bankers), from whom most of private persons borrowed during the 19th century, and the savings bank in Sala. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Kanalbyggarna och staten : Offentliga vattenbyggnadsföretag i Sverige från medeltiden till 1810

    Författare :Hans Lindgren; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; canal construction enterprises; canal history; canals; central government; civil engineering; history of technology; infrastructure development; political decision-making; public opinion; water construction technology; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : The Canal issue was on the political agenda in Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1810. That year represents the starting point of the Göta Canal construction and a break in political and scientific canal discussions in Sweden. This dissertation is a contribution to the Swedish history of infrastructure and construction technology. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Essays on contracts and social preferences

    Författare :Robertas Zubrickas; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the problems of optimal grading, employee performance evaluation by unaccountable managers, and the evolution of inequity-averse preferences. The purpose is to explain certain stylized facts related to these problems, and this is attempted with the help of contract-theoretic models. LÄS MER