The familiarity of strangers : the Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period
Diasporic families and the making of a business partnership -- Livorno and the western Sephardic diaspora -- A new city, a new society? Livorno, the Jewish nation, and communitarian cosmopolitanism -- Between state commercial power and trading diasporas: Sephardim in the Mediterranean -- Marriage, d...
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| Sprache: | English |
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New Haven : Yale University Press,
(c)2009
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| Schlagworte: | Jews Sephardim Jewish merchants Electronic books SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies HISTORY ; Modern ; 18th Century Commerce Ethnic relations mehr... |
| Umfang: | Online Ressource (xiii, 470 pages) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Diasporic families and the making of a business partnershipLivorno and the western Sephardic diaspora
- A new city, a new society? Livorno, the Jewish nation, and communitarian cosmopolitanism
- Between state commercial power and trading diasporas: Sephardim in the Mediterranean
- Marriage, dowry, inheritance, and types of commercial association
- Commission agency, economic information, and the legal and social foundations of business cooperation
- Cross-cultural trade and the etiquette of merchants' letters
- Ergas and Silveras heterogeneous trading networks
- The exchange of Mediterranean Coral and Indian diamonds
- The "big diamond affair": merchants on trial.