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Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Francesca Trivellato tests assumptions about ethnic and religious trading diasporas and networks of exchange and trust. Her extensive research in international archives-including a vast cache of merchants’ letters written between 1704 and 1746-reveals a more nuanced view of the business relations between Jews and non-Jews across the Mediterranean, Atlantic Europe, and the Indian Ocean than ever before. The book argues that cross-cultural trade was predicated on and generated familiarity among strangers, but could coexist easily with religious prejudice. It analyzes instances in which business cooperation among coreligionists and between strangers relied on language, customary norms, and social networks more than the progressive rise of state and legal institutions.

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How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West's centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets.By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend's earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory-from Marx to Weber and Sombart.Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.

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Francesca Trivellato part sur les traces de la légende qui a accompagné l'idée de prédispositions particulières des juifs pour le commerce et le crédit. À l'origine se trouve la fable de l'invention juive, à la fin du Moyen Âge, de l'assurance maritime et de la lettre de change, deux instruments essentiels de la finance privée européenne. Exprimée pour la première fois dans le texte d'un avocat bordelais du XVIIe siècle, cette construction imaginaire, à très longue portée et aux conséquences terribles, se trouve reprise par Montesquieu, Voltaire, Beccaria, puis dans les textes plus contemporains de Marx ou Weber. Retraçant les différentes manifestations de cette légende et ce qu'elles révèlent des aspirations et des craintes collectives des contemporains, ce livre s'attache à décrire le fonctionnement de l'économie préindustrielle, les mécanismes du crédit à l'époque moderne et la mise en place du statut des juifs en France et en Europe, du milieu du XVIIe siècle jusqu'à Napoléon. Magnifique ouvrage d'histoire culturelle de l'économie, juifs et capitalisme montre que les débats sur la portée du marché ont toujours été indissociables de l'élaboration de hiérarchies juridiques et symboliques impliquant inclusions et exclusions. L'anonymat du marché est une idée récente. Elle reste une réalité insaisissable.

Credit --- Finance, Personal --- Debt --- Contracts --- Bills of exchange --- Marine insurance --- Usury --- Jewish capitalists and financiers --- Jewish businesspeople --- Jews --- Europe --- Crédit --- Lettres de change --- Usure --- Hommes d'affaires juifs --- Histoire --- Opinion publique