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The Same But Different?: Inter-Cultural Trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640

by Jessica Roitman
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004202764
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 328
  • Original Price: GBP 173.6
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 681 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Commerce

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.

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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