Diamond Stories : Enduring Change on 47th Street /
Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world-a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet it is also a modern industry facing...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2002.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Diamonds, Jews, and the world
- Being there
- New York, Diamond Center
- Million dollar handshakes
- With loupe and Internet
- Diamonds, families, and time
- The courtly system of arbitration.