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Purchasing power : the economics of modern Jewish history /

Purchasing Power repositions economics in our understanding of the Jewish experience from early modern Rome to contemporary America and traces how economic circumstances have formed the context for, and even underpinned, Jewish intellectual, culture, and political development.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Teller, A. (Editor ), Kobrin, Rebecca (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Colección:Jewish culture and contexts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Licenses, cartels, and kehila : Jewish moneylending and the struggle against restraint of trade in early modern Rome / Bernard Cooperman
  • Contraband for the Catholic king : Jews of the French Pyrenees in the tobacco trade and Spanish state finance / Carsten L. Wilke
  • Daily business or an affair of consequence? Credit, reputation, and bankruptcy among Jewish merchants in eighteenth-century Central Europe / Cornelia Aust
  • Jewish quarters : the economics of segregation in the Kingdom of Poland / Glenn Dynner
  • From Moses to Moses : Jews, clothing, and colonial commerce / Adam D. Mendelsohn
  • Brokering a rock 'n' roll international : Jewish record men in America and Britain / Jonathan Karp
  • The "West" and the rest : Jewish philanthropy and globalization to c.1880 / Abigail Green
  • Rebels without a patron state : how Israel financed the 1948 war / Derek Penslar
  • Orthodoxy through diamonds : Jewish life in Antwerp after World War II / Veerle Vanden Daelen
  • Faith meets politics and resources : reassessing modern transnational Jewish activism / Jonathan Dekel-Chen
  • Historiographical challenges / Adam Sutcliffe.