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The politics of Jewish commerce : economic thought and emancipation in Europe, 1638--1848 / Jonathan Karp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karp, Jonathan, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Commerce.
- Jews.
- Jews--Europe--Economic conditions.
- Jews--Economic conditions.
- Europe--Commerce--History.
- Europe.
- Europe--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 379 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study demonstrates the centrality of economic rationales to debates on Jews' status in Italy, Britain, France and Germany during the course of two centuries. It delineates the common themes that informed these debates - the ideal republic and the 'ancient constitution', the conflict between virtue and commerce, and the notion of useful and productive labor. It thus provides an overview of the political-economic dimensions of Jewish emancipation literature of this period. This overview is viewed against the backdrop of broader controversies within European society over the effects of commerce on inherited political values and institutions. By focusing on economic attitudes toward Jews, the book also illuminates European intellectual approaches toward economic modernity. By elucidating these general debates, it renders more contemporary Jewish economic self-conceptions - and the enormous impetus that Jewish reformist movements placed on the Jews' economic and occupational transformation - fully explicable.
- Contents:
- This new-fangled age
- From ancient constitution to Mosaic republic
- A new system of civil and commercial government
- The natural relation of things
- A state within a state
- The Israelites and the aristocracy
- Jews, commerce, and history
- Capitalism and the Jews
- Afterward : industrialization and beyond.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-18139-9
- 1-281-75110-3
- 9786611751104
- 0-511-41443-9
- 0-511-49908-6
- 0-511-41511-7
- 0-511-41281-9
- 0-511-41189-8
- 0-511-41373-4
- OCLC:
- 437219417
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