The Familiarity of Strangers
The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
Contents
Acknowledgments..............................................................................................................vii
Note on Terminology and Units of Measurement.................................................................................ix
Introduction.................................................................................................................1
1. Diasporic Families and the Making of a Business Partnership...............................................................21
2. Livorno and the Western Sephardic Diaspora................................................................................43
3. A New City, a New Society? Livorno, the Jewish Nation, and Communitarian Cosmopolitanism..................................70
4. Between State Commercial Power and Trading Diasporas: Sephardim in the Mediterranean......................................102
5. Marriage, Dowry, Inheritance, and Types of Commercial Association................................................. ... read full excerpt from Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period ebook
