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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Ransel, David L
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| Publisher: |
Indiana University Press
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| Date: |
11/26/2008
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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Based on the rare diary of an 18th-century Russian provincial merchant,
A Russian Merchant's Tale presents a revealing portrait of Russia's little-known commercial class. By recording his daily contacts with a wide array of individuals from lords to laborers for more than 40 years, Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov opened a window onto the education, work, birth, death, marriage, business, civic, holiday, and religious practices of a social group about which little has been known. Using the tools of microhistory to interpret the diary, David L. Ransel vividly brings to life Tolchënov's self-construction, his relations with family and society, and his entire world of aspirations, achievements, and failures. Challenging prevailing stereotypes of Russian merchants as tradition-bound and narrow-minded,
A Russian Merchant's Tale offers important new insights into the social history of imperial Russia.
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