An economy of strangers : Jews and finance in England, 1650-1830 / Avinoam Yuval-Naeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yuval-Naeh, Avinoam, author.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--England--History--18th century.

Jews.

Finance--England--History--18th century.

Finance.

Usury--Religious aspects.

Usury.

Jews--England--Economic conditions--18th century.

England--Ethnic relations--History--18th century.

England.

England--Economic conditions--18th century.

Economic history.

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Economic conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In this book, historian Avinoam Yuval-Naeh investigates how and why eighteenth-century English society projected anxieties regarding the parallel development of the modern economy and of the re-establishment of the Jewish population upon the other, thus offering new insights into the interface of religious ideas and economic life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Jewish Usury, Jewish Historiography, and the Readmission Polemic of the 1650s

Usury and the Re-narration of the Ancient Israelite Society

English Ethnography and the Economy of the Jews

Jews and the Financial Revolution

The 1753 Jewish Naturalization Bill and the Polemic over Public Credit

Jews, Finance, and Gender on the Stage and Beyond

Finance and the Eschaton

Economic Crime and Criminal Economy

Jews and English Civil Society: Between Cumberland's The Jew and the Campaignfor Emancipation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781512825053

1512825050

OCLC:

1381182254