Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants [Paperback]

At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in London and Amsterdam and French Huguenots in Lisbon.At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in London and Amsterdam and French Huguenots in Lisbon.Acknowledgements, List of Figures and Tables, Introduction, 1 Models for Trade and Globalization, 2 A Short History of the Diamond Trade, 3 A Cross-Cultural Diamond Trade Network, 4 Competition from an Ashkenazi Kinship Network, 5 Th e Embeddedness of Merchants in State and Society, 6 Trade, Global History and Human Agency, Conclusion, Notes, Works Cited, IndexUS? Taylor & Francis 2011