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"Dopo la perdita della Terra Santa, nel 1291, la pratica e l'idea di crociata andarono incontro a profondi cambiamenti. Anche il mondo circostante, d'altronde, era scosso da epidemie e problemi endemici, che si legavano a un crescente disinteresse per l'impresa d'oltremare. Nella seconda metà del Trecento il testimone della crociata nel Mediterraneo fu raccolto dai protagonisti più inaspettati: i mercanti genovesi e veneziani. Il problema delle loro motivazioni - materiali o religiose - è al centro dell'indagine. Lo studio di cronache, testamenti, documenti, atti governativi, opere letterarie, resoconti economici, corrispondenza e bolle papali, permette di delineare la mentalità e l'attitudine di genovesi e veneziani, che frequentavano i mari del Levante e ne conoscevano la complessità. Essi erano veramente solo degli opportunisti? Tra diplomazia, iniziative private, guerre e commercio, è possibile ricostruire la crociata pragmatica dei mercanti italiani."

Crusades --- Merchants --- History --- History.

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Provincializing Empire explores the global history of Japanese expansion through a regional lens. It rethinks the nation-centered geography and chronology of empire by uncovering the pivotal role of expeditionary merchants from !2;mi (present-day Shiga Prefecture) and their modern successors. Tracing their lives from the early modern era, and writing them into the global histories of empire, diaspora, and capitalism, Jun Uchida offers an innovative analysis of expansion through a story previously untold: how the nation's provincials built on their traditions to create a transpacific diaspora that stretched from Seoul to Vancouver, while helping shape the modern world of transoceanic exchange.

Merchants --- HISTORY / Asia / Japan. --- History. --- Businesspeople --- Commerce

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A history of Jews in the nineteenth-century transatlantic diamond industry, 'A Brilliant Commodity' shows how Jews became key players in the trade from its earliest days - from South Africa to Amsterdam and London to New York - to its place as a lucrative commodity in the global economy.

Diamond industry and trade --- Jewish merchants --- History

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"Until recently, the historiography of Middle Eastern economic elites during the first globalization has ignored the significant role played by Muslim Tujjar (big merchant-entrepreneurs). Foreign firms and local minorities were considered the prime agents of economic change and the initiators of economic growth. The 12 studies in this volume show that the Muslim Tujjar played a major economic role in various regions of the Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their investments, mainly in commercial agriculture, resulted in economic growth and changed economic structures and social relations in many Middle Eastern communities. They were also involved in political developments, some of which had a dramatic effect on the history of their countries, as for instance in late Qajar Iran. They also played a unique role in the process of cultural change. Although they supported the ulama financially, they also contributed to the establishment of new educational and cultural institutions. The story of the Tujjar is unique in the sense that it was the only indigenous elite group in the pre-World War I Middle East to bridge between traditional forces and concepts and Western attitudes and practices"--

Muslim merchants --- History. --- Middle East --- Commerce --- Economic conditions

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"A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and America. At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the Bacri brothers and their nephew, Naphtali Busnach, were perhaps the most notorious Jews in the Mediterranean. Based in the strategic port of Algiers, their interconnected families traded in raw goods and luxury items, brokered diplomatic relations with the Ottomans, and lent vital capital to warring nations. For the French, British, and Americans, who competed fiercely for access to trade and influence in the region, there was no getting around the Bacris and the Busnachs. The Kings of Algiers traces the rise and fall of these two Jewish trading families over four tumultuous decades in the nineteenth century.In this panoramic book, Julie Kalman restores their story-and Jewish history more broadly-to the histories of trade, corsairing, and high-stakes diplomacy in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath. Jacob Bacri dined with Napoleon himself. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Horatio Nelson considered strategies to circumvent the Bacris' influence. As the families' ambitions grew, so did the perils, from imprisonment and assassination to fraud and family collapse.The Kings of Algiers brings vividly to life an age of competitive imperialism and nascent nationalism, and demonstrates how people and events on the periphery shaped perceptions and decisions in the distant metropoles of the world's great nations"-- "This book tells the story of two Jewish trading families based in the port of Algiers, who played a key role in Mediterranean commerce and in international diplomacy -- between European powers and between Europe and the Ottoman Empire -- in the early 19th century"--

Imperialisme --- Commerce international --- Imperialism --- International trade --- Jews --- Jewish merchants --- Histoire --- History --- Algeria --- Algiers (Algeria) --- Commerce