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Religion and trade : cross-cultural exchanges in world history, 1000-1900 / edited by Francesca Trivellato, Leor Halevi, and Catia Antunes.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commerce--History.
- Commerce.
- International economic relations--Religious aspects--History.
- International economic relations.
- Religion--Economic aspects--History.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although trade connects distant people and regions, bringing cultures closer together through the exchange of material goods and ideas, it has not always led to unity and harmony. From the era of the Crusades to the dawn of colonialism, exploitation and violence characterized many trading ventures, which required vessels and convoys to overcome tremendous technological obstacles and merchants to grapple with strange customs and manners in a foreign environment. Yet despite all odds, experienced traders and licensed brokers, as well as ordinary people, travelers, pilgrims, missionaries, and int
- Contents:
- Cover; Religion and Trade; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Religion and Cross-Cultural Trade: A Framework for Interdisciplinary Inquiry; 2 The Blessings of Exchange in the Making of the Early English Atlantic; 3 Trading with the Muslim World: Religious Limits and Proscriptions in the Portuguese Empire (ca. 1480-1570); 4 The Economy of Ransoming in the Early Modern Mediterranean: A Form of Cross-Cultural Trade between Southern Europe and the Maghreb (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
- 5 Reflections on Reciprocity: A Late Medieval Islamic Perspective on Christian-Muslim Commitment to Captive Exchange6 Cross-Cultural Business Cooperation in the Dutch Trading World, 1580-1776: A View from Amsterdam's Notarial Contracts; 7 Trade across Religious and Confessional Boundaries in Early Modern France; 8 Coins and Commerce: Monetization and Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the Western Indian Ocean (Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries); 9 Crossing the Great Water: The Hajj and Commerce from Pre-Modern Southeast Asia
- 10 African Meanings and European-African Discourse: Iconography and Semantics in Seventeenth-Century Salt Cellars from Serra LeoaContributors; Index of Names; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-937921-1
- 0-19-937920-3
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