Title: Diaspora entrepreneurial networks : four centuries of history /
Authors: Baghdiantz McCabe, Ina.; Harlaftis, Gelina, 1958-; Pepelasē Minoglou, Iōanna.; Baghdiantz McCabe, Ina.
Publisher: Berg,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Merchants, Foreign History.; Business networks History.
Abstract: "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.
Contents: Diasporas Jewish and non-Jewish and the world maritime empires / Jonathan Israel -- Global trading ambitions in diaspora: the Armenians and their Eurasian silk trade, 1530-1750 / Ina Baghdiantz McCabe -- Trading networks in a traditional diaspora: Armenians in India, c. 1600-1800 / Sushil Chaudhury -- The seventeenth century Japanese diaspora: questions of boundary and policy / William D. Wray -- Coping with transition: Greek merchants and shipowners between Venice and England in the late sixteenth century / Maria Fusaro -- Maltese entrepreneurial networks / Carmel Vassallo -- Mapping the Greek maritime diaspora from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries / Gelina Harlaftis -- Toward a typology of Greek-diaspora entrepreneurship / Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou -- Jewish bankers, 1850-1914: internationalization along ethnic lines / Huibert Schiff -- Middle-Eastern entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, c.1750-c. 1940 / William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- Globalizing ethnicity with multi-local identifications: the Parsee, Indian Muslim, and Sephardic trade diasporas in Hong Kong / Caroline Plüss -- The trade diaspora of Baghdadi Jews: from India to China's treaty ports, 1842-1937 / Chiara Betta -- Western corporate forms and the social origins of Chinese diaspora entrepreneurial networks / Wai-keung Chung -- Irrational exuberance: the fatal conceit of Chinese financial capitalism in contemporary Indonesia / Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown -- Diaspora networks in the Asian maritime context / Antony Reid -- A profile of ethnonational diasporas / Gabriel Sheffer -- Greek merchant networks in the Age of Empires, 1770-1780 / Maria Christina Chatziioannou -- The concept of diaspora in the contemporary world / Stathis Gourgouris -- A Scottish merchant in Batabia, 1820-1840: Gilean McClain and Dutch connections / Frank Broeze.