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

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Auteur principal : Trivellato Francesca (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The familiarity of strangers : the Sephardic diaspora, Livorno and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period / Francesca Trivellato
Publié : New Haven, Conn., London : Yale University Press , cop. 2009
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-470 p.)
Accès en ligne : Compte-rendu
Sujets :
  • Introduction
  • 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 Silvera's heterogeneous trading networks
  • The exchange of Mediterranean Coral and Indian diamonds
  • The big diamond affair : merchants on trial