The promise and peril of credit : what a forgotten legend about Jews and finance tells us about the...
The promise and peril of credit : what a forgotten legend about Jews and finance tells us about the...
The promise and peril of credit : what a forgotten legend about Jews and finance tells us about the making of European commercial society / Francesca Trivellato.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press [2019]
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G 2019/2804
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English
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xiv, 405 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- The setting: marine insurance and bills of exchange -- The making of a legend -- The riddle of usury -- Bordeaux, the specter of crypto-Judaism, and the changing status of commerce -- One family, two bestsellers, and the legend's canonization -- Between usury and the "spirit of comme...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press [2019]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2019]
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The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West's centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets. By the clos...
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The promise and peril of credit : what a forgotten legend about Jews and finance tells us about the making of European commercial society / Francesca Trivellato.
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Histories of economic life
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/2804
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74VKVxveMKxb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVxveMKxb
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0691178593 hardcover
9780691178592 hardcover
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332.7094
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991024245916802626
