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Title

Juifs et capitalisme : aux origines d'une légende / Francesca Trivellato ; traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) et de l'italien par Jacques Dalarun ; préface de Pierre Birnbaum.

Author

Trivellato, Francesca, 1970-

Publication

• Paris : Éditions du Seuil, [2023]
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

• Dalarun, Jacques
• Birnbaum, Pierre

Description

419 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

Francesca Trivellato follows in the footsteps of the legend that accompanied the idea of ​​particular predispositions of Jews for trade and credit. At its origin is the fable of the Jewish invention, at the end of the Middle Ages, of maritime insurance and the bill of exchange, two essential instruments of European private finance. Expressed for the first time in the text of a Bordeaux lawyer of the 17th century, this imaginary construction, with a very long range and with terrible consequences, is taken up by Montesquieu, Voltaire, Beccaria, then in the more contemporary texts of Marx or Weber. . Retracing the different manifestations of this legend and what they reveal of the collective aspirations and fears of contemporaries, this book sets out to describe the functioning of the pre-industrial economy, the mechanisms of credit in the modern era and the place of the status of the Jews in France and in Europe, from the middle of the 17th century until Napoleon. A magnificent work of cultural history of economics, Jews and capitalism shows that debates on the scope of the market have always been inseparable from the elaboration of legal and symbolic hierarchies involving inclusions and exclusions. Market anonymity is a recent idea. It remains an elusive reality--Translation of text on back cover.

Series Statement

L'Univers historique

Uniform Title

• Promise and peril of credit. French
• Univers historique

Alternative Title

Promise and peril of credit.

Subject

• Credit > Europe > History
• Contracts > Europe > History
• Bills of exchange > Europe > History
• Marine insurance > Europe > History
• Usury > Europe > History
• Jewish capitalists and financiers > Europe > Public opinion > History
• Jewish businesspeople > Europe > Public opinion > History
• Jews > Europe > Economic conditions
• Crédit > Europe > Histoire
• Contrats > Europe > Histoire
• Lettres de change > Europe > Histoire
• Assurances maritimes > Europe > Histoire
• Usure > Europe > Histoire
• Capitalistes et financiers juifs > Europe > Opinion publique > Histoire
• Gens d'affaires juifs > Europe > Opinion publique > Histoire
• Juifs > Europe > Conditions économiques
• Europe > Commerce > History
• Europe > Commerce > Histoire

Note

• Translation of: The promise and peril of credit : what a forgotten legend about Jews and finance tells us about the making of European commercial society, Princeton University Press, 2019. This work has also been translated in to Italian, under title: Ebrei e capitalismo : storia di una leggenda dimenticata, published GLF editori Laterza, settembre 2021.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9782021457889
• 2021457885

OCLC

• on1373372149
• SCSB-14727217

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library