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

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 470 pages) : illustrations, map 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 Summary Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Francesca Trivellato tests assumptions about ethnic and religious trading diasporas and networks of exchange and trust. Her extensive research in international archives-including a vast cache of merchants' letters written between 1704 and 1746-reveals a more nuanced view of the business relations between Jews and non-Jews across the Mediterranean, Atlantic Europe, and the Indian Ocean than ever before. The book argues that cross-cultural trade was predicated on and generated familiarity among strangers, but could coexist easily with religious prejudice. It analyzes instances in which business cooperation among coreligionists and between strangers relied on language, customary norms, and social networks more than the progressive rise of state and legal institutions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-445) and index Notes Print version record 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 -- History -- 18th century Jewish merchants -- Italy -- Livorno -- History -- 18th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century. Commerce Ethnic relations Jewish merchants Jews Jews -- Economic conditions Sephardim Sephardim -- Social conditions Sephardim -- Social life and customs SUBJECT Livorno (Italy) -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century Livorno (Italy) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century Subject Italy -- Livorno Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300156201 0300156200 0300136838 9780300136838

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