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Author Trivellato, Francesca, 1970- author.

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

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 470 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-445) and index.
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.
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Subject Jews -- Italy -- Livorno -- History -- 18th century.
Jews.
Italy -- Livorno.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Sephardim -- Italy -- Livorno -- History -- 18th century.
Sephardim.
Jews -- Italy -- Livorno -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
Economic conditions.
Sephardim -- Italy -- Livorno -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
Sephardim -- Italy -- Livorno -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Social conditions.
Sephardim -- Italy -- Livorno -- Social life and customs -- History -- 18th century.
Manners and customs.
Jewish merchants -- Italy -- Livorno -- History -- 18th century.
Jewish merchants.
Livorno (Italy) -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century.
Livorno (Italy) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Trivellato, Francesca, 1970- Familiarity of strangers. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009 9780300136838 (DLC) 2008045629 (OCoLC)262432336
ISBN 9780300156201 (electronic book)
0300156200 (electronic book)
0300136838 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780300136838 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780300136838 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1282352105
9781282352100