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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shield, Renee Rose
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
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.