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Year: 1967 Publisher: Amsterdam : Noord-Hollandsche U.M.,
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Jewish merchants. --- Jews --- Commerçants juifs --- Juifs --- Lorraine (France) --- Commerce --- History. --- Commerçants juifs
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ISBN: 9780300168181 9780300127362 0300168187 0300127367 9786612089381 0300142854 1282352393 9786612352393 1282089382 9780300142853 9781282089389 9781282352391 6612352396 6612089385 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Haven Yale university press
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The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880's until the First World War. When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for many, a worldwide feather bust. In this remarkable book, Sarah Stein draws on rich archival materials to bring to light the prominent and varied roles of Jews in the feather trade. She discovers that Jews fostered and nurtured the trade across the global commodity chain and throughout the far-flung territories where ostriches were reared and plucked, and their feathers were sorted, exported, imported, auctioned, wholesaled, and finally manufactured for sale. From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from rival Sephardic families whose feathers were imported from the Sahara and traded across the Mediterranean, from New York's Lower East Side to entrepreneurial farms in the American West, Stein explores the details of a remarkably vibrant yet ephemeral culture. This is a singular story of global commerce, colonial economic practices, and the rise and fall of a glamorous luxury item.
Ostrich feather industry --- Jewish merchants --- Plumes d'autruche --- Commerçants juifs --- History --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Industry. --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- History. --- Commerçants juifs --- Merchants, Jewish --- Merchants --- Feather industry --- Ostrich products industry
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ISSN: 12552364 ISBN: 9782753517257 2753517258 Year: 2012 Volume: *96 Publisher: Rennes Presses universitaires de Rennes
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History of Europe --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Moneylenders --- Banks and banking --- Usury --- Lombards --- Prêteurs --- Banques --- Usure --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Prêt à usure --- --XIIIe-XVIIIe s., --- Exclusion --- --Banquier --- --Lombard --- --Moneylenders --- --History of Europe --- Prêteurs --- XIIIe-XVIIIe s., 1201-1800 --- Banquier --- Lombard --- Banquiers italiens --- Banquiers juifs --- Commerçants juifs --- Juifs --- Pays-Bas --- Conditions sociales --- 17e siècle --- Commerçants juifs --- 17e siècle
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