Format:
1 online resource (364 pages)
ISBN:
9780812291650
Series Statement:
Jewish Culture and Contexts
Content:
Purchasing Power repositions economics in our understanding of the Jewish experience from early modern Rome to contemporary America and traces how economic circumstances have formed the context for, and even underpinned, Jewish intellectual, culture, and political development.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History -- PART I. NETWORKS AND NICHES: THE CREATION OF JEWISH ECONOMIC POWER -- Chapter 1. Licenses, Cartels, and Kehila: Jewish Moneylending and the Struggle Against Restraint of Trade in Early Modern Rome -- Chapter 2. Contraband for the Catholic King: Jews of the French Pyrenees in the Tobacco Trade and Spanish State Finance -- Chapter 3. Daily Business or an Affair of Consequence? Credit, Reputation, and Bankruptcy Among Jewish Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Central Europe -- Chapter 4. Jewish Quarters: The Economics of Segregation in the Kingdom of Poland -- Chapter 5. From Moses to Moses: Jews, Clothing, and Colonial Commerce -- Chapter 6. Brokering a Rock 'n' Roll International: Jewish Record Men in America and Britain -- PART II. PHILANTHROPY, MONEY, AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF POWER IN JEWISH ECONOMIC HISTORY -- Chapter 7. The "West" and the Rest: Jewish Philanthropy and Globalization to c. 1880 -- Chapter 8. Rebels Without a Patron State: How Israel Financed the 1948 War -- Chapter 9. Orthodoxy Through Diamonds: Jewish Life in Antwerp after World War II -- Chapter 10. Faith Meets Politics and Resources: Reassessing Modern Transnational Jewish Activism -- Chapter 11. Anxieties of Distinctiveness: Walter Sombart's The Jews and Modern Capitalism and the Politics of Jewish Economic History -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- List of Contributors.
Note:
Includes index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812247305
Additional Edition:
Purchasing power Philadelphia : Penn, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015 ISBN 9780812247305
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0812247302
Additional Edition:
Print version Purchasing power : the economics of modern Jewish history Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2015
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Juden
;
Wirtschaft
;
Wirtschaftliche Lage
;
Binnenhandel
;
Geschichte 1500-
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