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The familiarity of strangers : the Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period
- Title
- The familiarity of strangers : the Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period / Francesca Trivellato.
- Author
- Trivellato, Francesca, 1970-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 470 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
- Subject
- 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 > 18th century
- Jewish merchants > Italy > Livorno > History > 18th century
- Livorno (Italy) > Commerce > History > 18th century
- Livorno (Italy) > Ethnic relations > History > 18th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *PXN10-1096
- ISBN
- 9780300136838 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0300136838 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008045629
- OCLC
- YBP 2008045629
- Author
- Trivellato, Francesca, 1970-
- Title
- The familiarity of strangers : the Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period / Francesca Trivellato.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- *PXN10-1096