The great Russian fair : Nizhnii Novgorod, 1840-90
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The great Russian fair : Nizhnii Novgorod, 1840-90
(St. Antony's/Macmillan series)
Macmillan, in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1990
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 269-281
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An examination of Russia's largest nineteenth century trade fair, one of the major centres of her internal commerce and trade with the East. Different aspects of the fair, such as the exchange of goods, the types of traders present and the social and cultural life of the fair, bring to light Russia's social and economic evolution. The impact of railroad construction, the development of a national market, the evolving role of the Russian state in commerce and the slowly emerging sophistication of the merchant "soslovie" are themes which contribute to the author's examination of trade at Nizhnii.
Table of Contents
- Historical background
- commerce at the Nizhnii Novgorod Fair - tea, cotton goods, iron, goods bought and sold by the peasants, Persian and central Asian trade, business transaction at the Fair
- the social composition of the traders at the Nizhnii Novgorod Fair
- the Nizhnii Novgorod Fair administration
- daily life and entertainment at the Fair.
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