Title Plumes : ostrich feathers, Jews, and a lost world of global commerce / Sarah Abrevaya Stein.

Publication Info.	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: The pursuit of plumes -- The Cape of Southern Africa : Atlantic crossings -- London : global feather hub -- The trans-Saharan trade : Mediterranean connections -- The American feather world -- Conclusion: Global stories.
Summary	<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War.
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Subject	Ostrich feather industry -- History.
	Ostrich feather industry.
	History.
	Jewish merchants -- History.
	Jewish merchants.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Stein, Sarah Abrevaya. Plumes. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008031753
ISBN	9780300142853 (electronic book)
	0300142854 (electronic book)
	1282089382
	9781282089389
	9780300127362
	0300127367
	1282352393
	9781282352391
Standard No.	9786612089381