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Author Goldberg, Jessica L.

Title Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean : the Geniza Merchants and their Business World.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (450 pages).
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Series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
Cambridge studies in economic history. Second series.
Summary Reconstructs the business world of the eleventh-century Geniza merchants and, in doing so, rewrites medieval Islamic and Mediterranean economic history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-415) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction: two tales -- Part I. Institutions: 2. Merchants in their community; 3. The uses of commercial correspondence; 4. The nature of merchants' trade; 5. The human landscape: business relationships, institutions of law and government; 6. Conclusion to Part I -- Part II. Geographies: 7. The geography of information; 8. Commodities in a regional market; 9. Individual geographies of trade; 10. The contracting geography of the eleventh-century merchant network; 11. Conclusion: the Mediterranean through the eyes of Geniza merchants.
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Subject Mediterranean Region -- Commerce -- History.
Mediterranean Region.
Commerce.
History.
Jewish merchants -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500.
Jewish merchants.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Commerce -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
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