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Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this study challenges the historiographical argument that the Sephardim, and indeed, a variety of religio-ethnic groups, achieved their commercial success by relying on geographically dispersed family members and fellow ethnics. The book’s findings challenge the reigning understanding that commercial success stemmed from endogamous business relationships and socio-cultural insularity. The book demonstrates that the most successful Sephardic merchants of early seventeenth century Amsterdam built their fortunes not thanks to familial or diasporic connections, but through “loose ties,” economic networks comprised of non-Sephardim. Focusing on three of the most prominent Sephardic merchants in Amsterdam, and a random sampling of other Sephardi merchants, the book reveals a multi-ethnic and multi-religious trade network of non-Jewish merchants.

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Author:   Jessica Roitman ,  Jessica Roitman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   42
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.692kg
ISBN:  

9789004202764

ISBN 10:   9004202765
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   14 February 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter I: Inter-culturality and the Sephardim Chapter II: Diaspora, Migration, and the Foundations of Inter-cultural Trade Chapter III: Merchants at Work: Opportunity, Integration, and Innovation Chapter IV: Networks in Action Chapter V: The Importance of the Occasional Chapter VI – The 1602 Sugar Confiscation – A Case Study in Inter-cultural Lobbying and Influence Chapter VII: The Same but Different Concluding remarks and avenues for further research Appendix 1: Largest Shippers to the Mediterranean, 1590-1620 Appendix 2: Associates of Manoel Rodrigues Vega, 1597-1613 Appendix 3: Associates of Manoel Carvalho, 1602-1636 Appendix 4: Associates of Bento Osorio, 1610-1640 Appendix 5: Dutch signatories of the 1602 petition to the burgomasters of Amsterdam and their relationships with Sephardic merchants Appendix 6: Data Analysis – Methods and Conclusions

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Jessica Vance Roitman, Ph.D. (2009) in History, Leiden University, is Rubicon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. She was a Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. She has published on colonial and inter-cultural trade and Sephardic migration.

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