The familiarity of strangers
Subtitle: the Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period
By: Francesca Trivellato.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780300136838
Subjects: 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; Livorno (Italy) -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century; Livorno (Italy) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Diasporic families and the making of a business partnership; title: Livorno and the western Sephardic diaspora; title: A new city, a new society? Livorno, the Jewish nation, and communitarian cosmopolitanism; title: Between state commercial power and trading diasporas: Sephardim in the Mediterranean; title: Marriage, dowry, inheritance, and types of commercial association; title: Commission agency, economic information, and the legal and social foundations of business cooperation; title: Cross-cultural trade and the etiquette of merchants' letters; title: Ergas and Silveras heterogeneous trading networks; title: The exchange of Mediterranean Coral and Indian diamonds; title: The big diamond affair: merchants on trial.