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Dictionnaire commercial et financier : français, néerlandais, anglais, allemand.
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ISBN: 9002111096 9789002111099 Year: 1972 Publisher: Anvers Erasme

Society and individual in Renaissance Florence
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ISBN: 1283277042 9786613277046 0520928229 1597349046 9780520928220 0585441138 9780585441139 9780520232549 0520232542 9781597349048 9781283277044 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Renaissance Florence has often been described as the birthplace of modern individualism, as reflected in the individual genius of its great artists, scholars, and statesmen. The historical research of recent decades has instead shown that Florentines during the Renaissance remained enmeshed in relationships of family, neighborhood, guild, patronage, and religion that, from a twenty-first-century perspective, greatly limited the scope of individual thought and action. The sixteen essays in this volume expand the groundbreaking work of Gene Brucker, the historian in recent decades who has been most responsible for the discovery and exploration of these pre-modern qualities of the Florentine Renaissance. Exploring new approaches to the social world of Florentines during this fascinating era, the essays are arranged in three groups. The first deals with the exceptionally resilient and homogenous Florentine merchant elite, the true protagonist of much of Florentine history. The second considers Florentine religion and Florence's turbulent relations with the Church. The last group of essays looks at criminals, expatriates, and other outsiders to Florentine society.


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International business dictionary in nine languages
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ISBN: 9026703945 Year: 1974 Publisher: Deventer : Kluwer,

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Routledge French dictionary of business, commerce and finance : French-English/English-French = Dictionnaire anglais des affaires, du commerce et de la finance : français-anglais/anglais-français
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ISBN: 0415093945 9780415093941 Year: 1996 Publisher: London : Routledge,

The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective
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ISBN: 0521323517 9780521357265 0521357268 1107384702 0511251696 0511819587 9780511819582 Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after. They discuss a wide range of goods - from oriental carpets to human relics - to reveal both that the underlying logic of everyday economic life is not so far removed from that which explains the circulation of exotica, and that the distinction between contemporary economics and simpler, more distant ones is less obvious than has been thought. As the editor argues in his introduction, beneath the seeming infinitude of human wants, and the apparent multiplicity of material forms, there in fact lie complex, but specific, social and political mechanisms that regulate taste, trade, and desire. Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture. It will appeal to anthropologists, social historians, economists, archaeologists, and historians of art.

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