The familiarity of strangers : the Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period /

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Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Francesca Trivellato te...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Trivellato, Francesca, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Jews > Italy > Livorno > History > 18th century.
Sephardim > Italy > Livorno > History > 18th century.
Jews > Italy > Livorno > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Sephardim > Italy > Livorno > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Sephardim > Italy > Livorno > Social conditions > 18th century.
Sephardim > Italy > Livorno > Social life and customs > History > 18th century.
Jewish merchants > Italy > Livorno > History > 18th century.
Juifs > Italie > Livourne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Séfarades > Italie > Livourne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Juifs > Italie > Livourne > Conditions économiques > 18e siècle.
Séfarades > Italie > Livourne > Conditions économiques > 18e siècle.
Séfarades > Italie > Livourne > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Séfarades > Italie > Livourne > Mœurs et coutumes > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Commerçants juifs > Italie > Livourne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Modern > 18th Century.
Commerce.
Ethnic relations.
Jewish merchants.
Jews.
Jews > Economic conditions.
Sephardim.
Sephardim > Social conditions.
Sephardim > Social life and customs.
Livorno (Italy) > Commerce > History > 18th century.
Livorno (Italy) > Ethnic relations > History > 18th century.
Italy > Livorno.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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, 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.

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