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The Promise and Peril of Credit : What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society /
The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West's centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surroun...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Setting: Marine Insurance and Bills of Exchange; 2 The Making of a Legend; 3 The Riddle of Usury; 4 Bordeaux, the Specter of Crypto- Judaism, and the Changing Status of Commerce; 5 One Family, Two Bestsellers, and the Legend's Canonization; 6 Between Usury and the "Spirit of Commerce"; 7 Distant Echoes; 8 A Legacy that Runs Deep; Coda; Appendix 1: Early Modern European Commercial Literature: Printed Bibliographies and Online Databases; Appendix 2: The Legend's Earliest Formulation
- Appendix 3: Étienne Cleirac's Works: Titles, Editions, and IssuesAppendix 4: The Legend in the Works of Jacques Savary and His Sons; Appendix 5: Printed Books in French that Mention the Legend (1647-1800); Appendix 6: Printed Books in Languages Other than French that Mention the Legend (1676-1800); Appendix 7: Bibliographical References in Werner Sombart's Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben (1911); Notes; Index