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The Familiarity of Strangers
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Jun 08, 2009
488 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
19 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780300136838
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Cloth: $50.00 tx
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The Familiarity of StrangersThe Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
"Trivellato has accomplished something special - a brilliant description of a family, of a nation, of a period of history, of an economy and of a culture...This is one of the best and most original books on Jewish history published this year." —The Jerusalem Post "One could not find a better example of the marriage between theory and practice, secondary and primary literature."—John A. Marino, University of California, San Diego "This book is certainly important, the kind that appears once every few years, if that. It is the best book on cross-cultural trade since Philip Curtin invented the field more than two decades ago."—Steven Epstein, University of Kansas "The Familiarity of Strangers offers ground-breaking perspectives on social networks and the market, the culture of trust, the history of Sephardic Jews, and the global reach of early modern commerce. It successfully challenges our stereotypes about capitalism, rational choice, cosmopolitanism, and the role of kin in commercial life. With access to archives in numerous countries, it offers an exciting and new approach to the interaction of culture and economic life."—Margaret C. Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles "Trivellato’s stunningly well-researched and theoretically sophisticated study of Sephardic merchants in the free-port of Livorno reveals how they made deals not just with other Jews but all varieties of Christians across Europe and even Hindus in India. How was it possible to bridge these formidable religious and ethnic barriers? She offers 'communitarian cosmopolitanism' as a new and promising model for understanding cross-cultural economic ties. This book will be a benchmark for future work in the social history of early modern business."—Edward Muir, author of The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera "This is a superb and sophisticated book on the Sephardi merchants of Livorno in the early modern period. An example of global history writing at its best, it illuminates deftly and with great nuance the complexities of diasporic networks and cross-cultural trade."—Aron Rodrigue, Stanford University
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