| Description |
xxii, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Business, culture and change series |
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Business, culture and change series
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| Contents |
Tribute to Professor Frank Broeze -- Introduction / Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou -- 1. Diasporas Jewish and non-Jewish and the world maritime empires / Jonathan Israel -- 2. Global trading ambitions in diaspora : the Armenians and their Eurasian silk trade, 1530-1750 / Ina Baghdiantz McCabe -- 3. Trading networks in a traditional diaspora : Armenians in India, c. 1600-1800 / Sushil Chaudhury -- 4. The seventeenth-century Japanese diaspora : questions of boundary and policy / William D. Wray -- 5. Coping with transition : Greek merchants and shipowners between Venice and England in the late sixteenth century / Maria Fusaro -- 6. Maltese entrepreneurial networks / Carmel Vassallo -- 7. Mapping the Greek maritime diaspora from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries / Gelina Harlaftis -- 8. Toward a typology of Greek-diaspora entrepreneurship / Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou -- 9. Jewish bankers 1850-1914 : internationalization along ethnic lines / Huibert Schijf -- 10. Middle-eastern entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, c. 1750-c. 1940 / William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- 11. Globalizing ethnicity with multi-local identifications : the Parsee, Indian Muslim and Sephardic trade diasporas in Hong Kong / Caroline Pluss -- 12. The trade diaspora of Baghdadi Jews : from India to China's treaty ports, 1842-1937 / Chiara Betta -- 13. Western corporate forms and the social origins of Chinese diaspora entrepreneurial networks / Wai-keung Chung -- 14. Irrational exuberance : the fatal conceit of Chinese financial capitalism in contemporary Indonesia / Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown -- 15. Diaspora networks in the Asian maritime context / Antony Reid -- 16. A profile of ethno-national diasporas / Gabriel Sheffer -- 17. Greek merchant networks in the age of empires (1770-1780) / Maria Christina Chatziioannou -- 18. The concept of 'diaspora' in the contemporary world / Stathis Gourgouris -- 19. A Scottish merchant in Batavia, (1820-1840) : Gilean Maclaine and Dutch connections / Frank Broeze |
| Summary |
"Diasporas - large-scale ethnic migrations - have been a source of growing concern as we try to understand the nature of community, identity and nationalism. Traditionally diaspora communities have been understood to be pariah communities, and most work on diasporas has focused on specific groups such as the Jewish or African Diaspora. This book is unique in arguing against traditional interpretations and in taking a comparative look at a range of diasporas, including the Jewish, Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Maltese, Greek and Armenian diasporas."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online (Table of contents) |
| Subject |
Business networks -- History.
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International trade -- History.
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Merchants, Foreign -- History.
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| Author |
Harlaftis, Gelina, 1958-
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Baghdiantz McCabe, Ina.
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Pepelasē Minoglou, Iōanna.
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| LC no. |
2004026841 |
| ISBN |
1859738753 (cloth) |
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185973880X (paperback) |
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