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Trade and institutions in the medieval Mediterranean : the geniza merchants and their business world / Jessica Goldberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldberg, Jessica, 1969-
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in economic history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish merchants.
- History.
- Commerce.
- Mediterranean Region--Commerce--History.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Jewish merchants--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.
- Commerce--History--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 426 pages) : maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: two tales
- Part I. Institutions: 2. Merchants in their community; 3. The uses of commercial correspondence; 4. The nature of merchants' trade; 5. The human landscape: business relationships, institutions of law and government; 6. Conclusion to Part I
- Part II. Geographies: 7. The geography of information; 8. Commodities in a regional market; 9. Individual geographies of trade; 10. The contracting geography of the eleventh-century merchant network; 11. Conclusion: the Mediterranean through the eyes of Geniza merchants.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-415) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781139551809
- 1139551809
- Publisher Number:
- 99962930537
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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