Money, power, and influence in eighteenth-century Lithuania : the Jews on the Radziwill estates /

It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Adam Teller challenges that assumption. Examining how Jews achieved their extraordinary success within the late feudal economy of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Teller, Adam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Radziwill family.
1700-1799
Jews > Lithuania > History > 18th century.
Jews > Lithuania > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Latifundio > Lithuania > History > 18th century.
Latifundia > Lituanie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Jewish.
Ethnic relations.
Jews.
Jews > Economic conditions.
Latifundio.
Lithuania > Ethnic relations > History > 18th century.
Lithuania (Grand Duchy) > History > 18th century.
Europe > Lithuania (Grand Duchy)
Lithuania.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Jewish settlement on the estates
  • Jews and Jewish communities in the urban economy
  • The economic institutions of the estates
  • Jews as estate leaseholders : the rise and fall of the Ickowicz brothers
  • Arendarze : Jewish lessees of monopoly rights
  • Jews and trade in the estate economy.

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