TY - BOOK AU - Trivellato,Francesca TI - The familiarity of strangers: the Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period SN - 9780300187496 AV - DS135.I85 U1 - 305.892/404556 22 PY - 2009///] CY - New Haven, London PB - Yale University Press KW - Jews KW - Italy KW - Livorno KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Sephardim KW - Economic conditions KW - Social conditions KW - Social life and customs KW - Jewish merchants KW - Handel KW - Kulturkonflikt KW - Geschichte 1700-1800 KW - Livorno (Italy) KW - Commerce KW - Ethnic relations KW - Class of Spring 2013 KW - Axel Springer Fellow KW - Fellow N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25592 UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29579 ER -